Disclaimer: OK final chapter and just so you know it takes place around two and a half months later and for those of you who have been paying attention should realize what's gonna happen and also would realize that I don't own Inuyasha.

Chapter 16:

Family Reunion

Mrs. Higurashi was about to head over to the family shrine when the doorbell rang. She began to fix up her hair as she opened the front door. On her porch stood three teenagers, one a boy who appeared to be around nineteen wearing a dark green sweat jacket and a snow cap. The others were girls, the elder with her short black hair warn down and wore a white coat, the younger wore her hair up except for two long strands of hair in the front of her face and wore a red sweater, "Hello may I help you?"

"Yes we were looking for someone, we were told that we could find Miruto here," the boy in green told her.

"Well he's still upstairs in his room asleep, may I ask why you wish to see him," the woman nervously asked.

"Let's just say we go way back," the younger girl responded then ascended the stairs with her companions. After opening a few doors the three found the room where the sleeping demon laid on his bed, his raven hair tossed across face. His non muscular figure lying on its side shirtless with the covers pulled up far enough to cover his legs but still show the tops of his black boxers. At the foot of the bed slept a grey cat demon curled up in a ball.

The boy walked over to the bed a shook the smaller boy by his shoulders, "Hey little bro wake up."

"Just another five minutes Aunt Ruri," Miruto sleepily said as he shrugged the demon off.

"Wow I didn't know we had an Aunt Ruri, in fact I didn't know we had an aunt," the earth elemental laughed, joined in by his siblings as their broth began to stretch out.

"Takashi, Kinbari, Kagura? What are you guys doing here," The sorrow demon asked then let out a long yawn and brushed the hair off his face.

"Takashi, your son not him, told us that you wanted this, besides we weren't sure if you were coming back though from the look of all the bags I 'd guess it's pretty safe to say you are," his twin sister said then handed over a small package wrapped in brown paper.

"Oh I almost completely forgot about that, I ordered it months ago, thanks," he told them as he sat up and put the package on his side table then grabbed a hair tie and pulled back his with his right hand.

"So how was the human world?" the fire demon eagerly asked her twin.

"Oh it was awesome but before I go into any more detail, could someone get my pants?" the half naked incarnation asked then pointed at one of his suitcases.


That Afternoon

Kagome walked up to her front door as she returned from school followed by Ichiro and Kanojo. "Wait Kagome explain to me again why Miruto didn't come to school today," the shadow demon inquired the girl as she opened the door.

"He said he didn't want to make a big deal about his departure, besides he was up till 2 last night packing," the shrine girl explained.

Apparently her mother had been waiting for her to come home because within seconds she arrived in front of them, "Kagome I need to talk to for a moment, it's about Miruto, some people came over looking for him a few hours ago, and I think they might be demons. They went upstairs and I haven't seen any of them since."

"Oh my, come on guys, we'd better make sure he's alright," the girl worriedly said then all three of them ran up the stairs.

When they entered the boy's room all four demons jumped in surprise and all three of the water elemental's siblings quickly cover their pointed ears with their hands as they had already taken off their winter gear. Takashi noticed his younger brother was not doing the same and yelled in a hushed voice, "What are you doing? You're going to expose yourself."

"You guys can relax, she's a demon, he's an eighth demon and well you remember Kagome," the "teen" chuckled as he pointed to each of his friends at a time.

"Hmm this is Kagome I didn't recognize her, it's been a long time," the earth elemental aid as he approached the wrong girl.

"Actually that's my girlfriend Kanojo," Miruto informed him with an air of surprise in his voice.

"Ah she hot, if things don't work out between you two be sure to give me a call," he suavely told her then kissed her hand, causing the demon to giggle.

"Don't bother humoring him, he's already vain enough," the sorrow incarnation mocked, making his sisters burst out into laughter.

"Miruto, why did you tell them my personal business?" Ichiro asked his friend once he commotion died down.

"They're my siblings, besides your not exactly hiding anything with that hair of yours," Miruto remarked referring to the fact that within the last few months the teenager had stopped using hair dye and now had white stripes in his lochs, "Which reminds me, Kagura may I talk to you in private for a few minutes?"

The younger sibling motioned for her to follow him outside the room, "Ok, what did you want to talk to me about?"

"Do you remember where Sesshomaru went the night that the portal to this world first opened up?" Miruto asked.

"Hmm it doesn't surprise me that you don't remember, you were pretty wasted. Of course we did all just go a major booze cruise. If I remember correctly, I think Sesshomaru walked off on his own after we finished. We were gonna go after him when you passed out. Takashi had to carry you all the way back to the house we swiped (Yeah when it first opened up there was no one day a year thing). Why did you wanna know?" the wind sorceress asked.

"Because you know the kid in there, the one who looks like, well actually he sort of is, Inuyasha? Well I think he is Sesshomaru's great grandson," Miruto told her and watch as a look of outrage and disgust crossed his sister's face.

"Why you little brat, how dare you insult my lord Sesshomaru in such a manner, he would never do something so repugnant as to create help in the creation of such a disgusting thing as a half breed (Ichiro's grandmother)," the demon yelled at her younger brother.

"Listen Kagura I'm sorry but I think it's true, just think about it, he's part dog demon, he was the reincarnation of Sesshomaru's brother, and he bares the blue crescent on his forehead," He revealed then reached for his doorknob, "Look I'll show you."

As he pulled the door open five "teens" and a demon cat fell forward outside the room, "Oh hey I swear we can explain," Ichiro said then they all smiled indignantly.

"Save it, I need to show her something," Miruto said then lifted him off the floor from the front and then held his left hand over the boy's forehead and the right on the arch of his back.

"Um you do realize I just think of you as a friend, right?" the mixed breed nervously said as he froze in the awkward position.

"Chill out Ichiro I just need to show my sister something, now hold still while I wash off the makeup," a wave of water washed over the boy's face though somehow he remained dry, "Look at him now, see the resemblance?"

Kagura looked into the boy's face and with a look of disgust, was forced to see the truth but that didn't mean she accepted it, "You jackass, why did you do this too me? Did you just wanna get a raise out of me, cause you did. I'm leaving," she slapped her brother across the face then angrily (yeah she has no emotional limits like the others) entered his room, slamming the door behind her.

Miruto fell back onto the floor and began to cry, "Oh great here come the waterworks, Takashi hand him while I try to calm down Kagura," Kinbari said then went back into her twin's chambers.

"What just happened?" Ichiro whispered to Kagome but it was overheard by the earth elemental.

"Well from what I overheard and seen, it seems that you are the great grandson of my sister's lord, Sesshomaru. Truth be told, Kagura has had a thing for him for five hundred years but she never had the nerve to tell him, after all when you live as long as we do there's no hurry. But after hearing this news she probably just got jealous and ticked off," Takashi explained in a calm way then sat down next to his crying brother.

At that moment the sound of the doorbell rang throughout the house, "I'd better go get that."

"No don't worry about it Kagome, I'll go get it. It's probably just Mineto and Sachi come to wish me goodbye," Miruto said as he wiped the tears from his eyes then headed down the stairs, covering his ears with hair.

"I'd better go with him, last thing we need is for him to breakdown in public. It leaves to many questions," Takaishi told his brother's friends then took his green ski cap out of his pocket and put it on his head to cover his ears.

"Come on Ichiro we'd better apply some new makeup," Kagome pointed out then lead her friend into the bathroom with Kanojo trailing behind.

When Miruto reached the bottom of the steps and opened the door he found that, as he expected, his two friends were standing there, "Hey Ruto (not a typo) we missed you at school today, you know you really hurt Mr. Kishimoto's feelings. He looked like a lost puppy today at hall monitor duty," Mineto snickered as he insulted his ex-teacher.

"Yeah well I'm so sorry, send him my warm regards and tell him that I got a call yesterday, apparently there is a vacancy in left hell for him after all," the demon remarked sarcastically, forcing a smile on his face.

"So when are you…" Sachi started but suddenly stopped and gazed into the house at the male coming down the stairs who only appeared to be a year or two older then her. He was wearing a tight green t-shirt that showed off his muscular arms and abs and a baggy pair of khakis. It was a few seconds before she realized she was starting to drool and immediately snapped out of her gaze, "leaving? Who is that?"

Miruto looked behind him and realized what she was talking about, "Oh that's just my brother, he came to visit the family and bring me back home," the water incarnation partially lied and hoped his sibling, who was now standing next to him, would get the hint and play along.

"Hey, the name's Takashi. I see Miruto here hasn't mentioned me much," he chuckled then held his hand out to Mineto and sending a confident smile to the blushing girl make her boyfriend protecting hold her close. The earth elemental suddenly recognized the two then whispered to his brother, "I see you brought your old gang back together."

The boy just smiled meekly until Sachi broke the silence, "Wow you speak Japanese very well," she said very slowly, articulating every syllable.

"Yes well he did live here for ten years before WE MOVED TO AMERICA," the younger boy said in a way that told his brother all he needed to know.

"Oh yes, I uh used to speak Japanese all the time," Takashi tried to play along but took a major blow to his pride when he saw they weren't buying it.

"Oh you'll have to excuse him, he's a bit rusty," Miruto excused.

"Well I guess that makes sense," Mineto said then entered the house.

"Yes well do you mind if me and my brother how do you say… Talk for a moment?" the green eyed demon asked, proud of his improved acting job, then walked his brother into the kitchen, "Ok before I make a complete idiot out of myself maybe you should tell me exactly what you told them."

"Nothing much, just that I'm Kagome's cousin who moved to America ten years ago. I've been careful not to tell them anything about my life; they didn't even know that I have siblings," he answered in English as to not reveal anything incase his friends were listening.

"Well ok, I guess I should go upstairs and tell Kinbari and Kagura if she's not still mad. Make sure to stall until I get back," Takashi told him then teleported out of the room in a dust tornado.

Miruto exited the kitchen and approached his friends, "Hey what did you brother want to talk about, and where is he?" Sachi asked as she searched.

"He just wanted to know where the bathroom was, I guess he was a little too shy to ask in front of you guys," the demon put his hand behind his neck and smiled meekly.

"Well he'd better hurry up cause I really gotta go, and I think someone's in the one upstairs," the human boy remarked then began to squirm.

"Oh well I don't know, I didn't think or want to asked," he nervously joked, trying to seem natural.

"True, so he's really your brother he looks so much hotter, I mean different. Well except for the whole pointed teeth thing. So I guess it's hereditary," the girl remarked, avoiding her, growing more jealous by the second, boyfriend's eyes.

"Yeah, my sisters have them too," he replied as his dark blue eyes darted back and forth at the door.

"You have sisters too, next thing ya know you'll be telling us you have us sun," Mineto teased.

"Yeah, of course, in fact I have six," he answered in a shaky sarcastic tone as he shot them a weak half smile.

"So are they here to or is it just your bro?" the boy eagerly asked in his attempt to tick off his girlfriend.

"Um yeah they're upstairs, but uh I don't think you should go up there," he warns them, or at least plays it off as a warning.

"Oh come on, when's the next chance we'll ever get to see them, or you for that matter," Mineto protested as he headed up the stairs, enjoying the annoyed look on Sachi's face.

The water demon dashed up the stairs and tried to cut off his friend, or at least slow him down, "OK then let's go into my room," he practically yelled as he slowly walked backwards towards his room with his arms held wide out.

"Ruto you're acting strange, are you hiding something," the girl asked worriedly.

"Why whatever would give you that idea," he softly laughed before he was pushed out of the way.

"OK that's it I'm going in," Mineto yelled the burst open the door to the room.

"You know you could just push the door open, you don't have to use so much force," Kinbari said as she stared at the familiar looking teenager.

"Oh so there's nothing going on in here? Nothing odd?" the purpl eyed boy asked in confusion.

"Yeah, well except that some strange guy just burst into here," the no calmer Kagura laughed hysterically with her sister.

"I'm so sorry about my rude boyfriend, I'm Sachi and he's Mineto. So you're Miruto's sisters?"

"Well I'm Kinbari, Miruto's twin sister, and she Kagura, she's the oldest," she politely introduced.

"Twin? But aren't you a girl?" Mineto pointed out, not thinking clearly from a full bladder.

"We're fraternal dumb-ass, don't they teach you anything here. Remind me again why you wanted to go to school here bro," the demon girl rudely replied but was glad to practice the lie her brother had told them only a moment earlier.

"You'll have to excuse my sister, she was sick the day we learned about manners," Miruto remarked.

The anger was about to yell when the door bell rang, "Don't worry I got it," a male voice called from the floor below.

"Oh good he's out of the bathroom, excuse me," Mineto said then dashed out of the room, colliding into Ichiro, "Oh god, sorry dude, hey wait why were you three in there together and are you wearing makeup? Never mind I gotta go," he then quickly got up and ran into the bathroom that his three friends had just left.

"I thought you guys said it wasn't noticeable," The mixed breed complained as Mineto, his sisters and Sachi came out of the bedroom.

"Come on Kagome let's see who's at the door," her 'cousin' advised then the two walked down the stairs with the other 'teenagers' (only one seems to be real XD) and Kirara trailing behind.

"Hey Miruto, Dad's here," his older brother snickered then revealed A Man in a business suit and short black hair in the doorway.

A look of shock came over the faces of Kagome and the three other elementals as they recognized the man, "Naraku," Miruto whispered to himself but then suddenly had to hold back a laugh as his brother seem to be doing as he noticed that his cat was rubbing up against the man's leg, "Welcome father, please come in."


4 Hours Later

After writing down his friend's email address Mineto headed toward the door, "Have a good trip back home, and don't forget to visit!"

"Don't worry I won't, I'll miss you," the demon yelled to the boy and his girlfriend who were heading home then quickly closed the door, "Ok Shippou the coast is clear."

The black haired man who had been posing as their father suddenly was surrounded by smoke. When the cloud disappeared a slightly shorter red head stood in his place. "You smell familiar, have we met before?" Ichiro asked after sniffing the air.

"Hm you're definitely Inuyasha, maybe thins will jog your memory," Shippou said with a smirk then transformed into his younger form.

"Wait you were the demon from the past, wow you've aged," the striped haired boy remarked as Shippou changed back.

"Yup that's me, wow it's sure strange to see you and Miroku and Sango again," I've started to forget what you looked like."

"Come on bro it's getting late, we should head home," Takashi told his younger brother.

"You're right but first I need to give my friends some things," Miruto said then ran up the stairs with Ichiro and Kagome tagging behind. Once inside the room Miruto walked over to his bedside table and unwrapped the package to reveal three red and blue prayer bead bracelets, "Ichiro I want you to have these, I know they're no substitutes for the real thing but these bracelets were created in my world to create the illusion of aging for demons that plan on staying in this world for a long period of time. I figured maybe now you might be able to move on with your life."

"Dude, are you serious? This is so awesome!" the boy gleefully exclaimed as he put the charm on his wrist.

"I should probably warn you though that since it's only an illusion the second you take it off your wrist you'll revert back to your true age and you'll have to start aging all over again," The demon warned then went over to his chest and removed the lock. After digging through it for five minutes straight he finally pulled out an ancient, dust covered sword in its once sleek sheath, "Also I believe that you should have this sword, it's known as the Tetsusiaga and I believe that it's destined to return to your hands."

"Miruto where did you get that?" Kagome sorrowfully asked, holding back the tears in her eyes.

"Let's just say Inuyasha left it to me," He weakly answered, trying to avoid looking into her eyes, "Well I still haven't given you your gift. I don't have an actual present, instead I will answer one question you have about the future, well past."

"Well then I want to know… to know how Inuyasha died," the girl began to weep as the words spilled from her mouth but she wiped the tears off on her sleeve.

"Are you sure that's what you want to know, I mean you could ask me anything," the elemental queried, hoping to change the subject.

"Yes I'm sure now tell me."

"If you insist but first I'm going to have to go a bit further back, you see I think it all started the day we defeated Naraku. We had him trapped somewhere, I can't quite remember if it was on an island or just near the coast but I guess it doesn't matter. I just know we were near water because I remember sitting on a small 5x5 island off the coast with Michio, keeping up a barrier with my siblings who were spread on other parts of the island or peninsula or whatever so that Naraku could escape. Oh god it took a lot of persuading on my part to get them to help, let's just say I was still paying them back until recently," the incarnate rambled on.

"I'm sorry to interrupt you but could you please get back to the point," Kagome asked gently.

"Oh sorry, I haven't told the story in awhile, anyway the fact is I never actually saw what happened but from what I was told, in order to finally destroy Naraku Kikyou sacrificed her life because he was born as a result of her actions. After that Inuyasha was never quite the same. At first he tried to keep everything bottled up inside but as the years passed by he became more and more enraged and his transformations into a full demon became more frequent to the point where even I had a hard time controlling him. Then one day about five years after my former master's demise, I think it was around the same time the twins were born…"

"Wait twins? Who are they?" the girl interrupted with a shaky tone to her voice.

"Oh Miroku and Sango's twin boys but that doesn't really matter. As I was saying around the time the twin's were born Inuyasha had another relapse and went demo, we tried to get him to calm down but before we could he had already hurt your arm very badly. You headed back to your own time to get help. We waited many weeks for you to return but you never did. Finally someone, I think maybe Shippou, searched the bottom of the well and found an envelope. I don't remember what the letter inside said but I do know that the envelope also help the shikon jewel. Inuyasha took it and tried to go after you but for some reason instead of going to the future as he normally did he wound up five hundred years in the past. We knew that we would never see you again so we decided that it was finally time to build a temple in order to protect the Shikon Jewel. Before we ever finished though Inuyasha ran off to live on his own…"


Flashback to 450 Years Earlier

"A few years later Shippou left as well but unlike Inuyasha, Shippou tended to visit monthly. As for me, I stayed with Miroku and Sango to help them out and purify the jewel. Truth be told whenever Inuyasha did visit it would be years apart, sometimes a decade would go by before we'd see him, the last time I saw him was a few days after Sango's death."

"Miruto I sense a powerful demonic aura approaching," Michio told the demon, but when he saw his former care taker he saw tears rolling down his cheeks, "Miruto I am as upset about my mother's death as you are but I believe that she would want us to protect the jewel."

"Of course I'm sure you are right, let's go," the water elemental brushed the tears from his face then took of towards the shrine's entrance with false confidence.

The two waited until they saw the silhouette of a figure darting through the trees, "get ready for it to strike," the elderly monk (yes he's around 50) said as he held out his staff.

"Wait I recognize that demon. INUYASHA, IS THAT YOU?" Miruto shouted into the woods. Seconds later a blur of red and white dropped from the sky.

"Glad to see you still remember me," the half demon smirked then walked over to his old friend.

"I assume you have returned to pay your respects to Sango," the incarnate told him then began to turn around and indicated for his old friend to follow him

"Yeah the runt told me what happened so I figured that it was time I came back," Inuyasha said with a small smirk on his face that Miruto couldn't see.

"Follow me I shall show you to her resting place," the full demon responded then began walking into the temple.

"I didn't know it then but Inuyasha was up to no good."

"Miruto I was just wondering, would you mind if I see the Sacred Jewel for a minute?" the white haired hanyou asked in a calm voice.

"I suppose it would be alright, I am just wondering why you want to see it?" the smaller demon asked his friend.

"I just wanted to see the jewel for old times sake, after all it was what brought us all together," Inuyasha responded with his rehearsed response.

"True, come with me it's this way," the elemental smiled as he lead the demon towards an empty corridor. Miruto then reached out his hand and the far wall began to shine a bright hue of teal then disappeared.

He started asking about the Shikon Jewel and how he wanted to see it for old times. I didn't think much of it at the time so stupidly I opened up the barrier protecting the jewel.

As his yellow eyes looked upon the jewel Miruto noticed a glassy longing look in them. Inuyasha began walking toward the alter with his hand reached out. "I am sorry Inuyasha but no one is allowed to touch the Sacred Jewel."

"Oh come on, I helped put it back together. I think I've earned the right to at least touch it," the dog demon said with a joking tone but his eyes did not seem to be joking, when Miruto looked in them he saw only anger.

"I apologize but I truly can't allow you to hold it, Come let's pay our respects to Sango," the incarnate grabbed on to the red sleeve and tried to pull him out of the room.

"All of a sudden Inuyasha just snapped and attacked me."

"Keep your hands off me you filthy creature!" the hanyou yelled then punched his former companion across the face, sending him flying for a few feet.

"Inuyasha what's wrong with you?" the elemental sobbed as he struggled onto his feet.

"I've come back for the jewel and no one will stop me," the now transformed demon shouted at the current guardian then withdrew the Tetsusiaga, "Wind Scar!"

At the last second Miruto disappeared from the attacks path only to appear behind its creator seconds later, "Inuyasha what's wrong with you?"

"There's nothing wrong with me, you on the other hand are a disgusting creature. Born from the sorrows of a beast, and just look you, you don't even have a sole. Would anyone even miss you if you died?" Inuyasha laughed hysterically before stabbing his sword backwards into the now crying demon's stomach.

"I got hurt really badly and I thought he was going to kill me and I… and I… I…" Miruto stuttered but found that he couldn't speak through the tears running down his face. His eyes stung and from what he could see there was a shocked look on Kagome's face.

"You killed him didn't you?" the now horrified girl deduced making Ichiro nervous.

"Inuyasha why?" the demon whine as he held his open wound.

"Do you really want to know, I am tired of all of this pain, I'm tired of this heart, so I came here to end it all. Once I have the jewel, I can finally become a full fledged demon," after the dog demon cockily revealed his plan he heard something strange. The whines and tears that filled the room had been replaced with a strange childish laugh, "What's so funny?"

"Do you truly believe that by becoming a full demon your life would be better? Even without your emotions do you truly believe your life would be any better? All you'll become is what you've always despised, what they always despised. I suppose after all we've been through I just find it kind of funny, in an ironic way," the water elemental continued to weakly laugh until the metal fang was held above his head.

"Shut the hell up, how dare you talk about them (Kikyou and Kagome)? After all they've done to me do you really think I care what they wanted? " Inuyasha said arrogantly but Miruto could hear the slight trembling in his voice and watched as he transformed back into a half demon then swung his sword.

"No I didn't, instead I did nothing as he... he... he killed himself and I just stood by and let it happen."

The fang circled back and sank into Inuyasha's stomach, "At least now I won't have to hear anymore of your bullshit," he laughed cockily as blood trailed from his mouth then passed away.

"Inuyasha wake up, please Inuyasha!"


End Flashback

"I should have stopped him, I know I could have but I froze, I was just so scared and… and I'm so sorry Kagome. I guess now you know why I didn't want to tell you, 'cause it was all my fault," as was his nature, the sorrow demon laid his head in his hands and wept.

"No it wasn't, it was my fault, I abandoned Inuyasha in his time of need. I'm a horrible person," Kagome shift the blame onto herself to comfort her friend and joined in the tears.

"No you're not Kagome, you haven't done anything," Miruto sobbed as he hugged the girl.

"Yeah but I'm gonna even after having heard your story."

Ichiro laid across Miruto's unmade bed and watched the two 'cousins' cry into each other's shoulders and thought, 'God they look upset, I wish I could help but what am I suppose to say, I'm sorry for what happened and wished he didn't die so I wouldn't exist," suddenly another voice entered the 'teenager's' head, 'Maybe I could cheer them up.' Unnoticed by his friends, the mixed breed's body began to brightly shine. When the shine wore off the boy began to smirk then lifted himself off the bed and approached the two. "You guys should relax; the truth is it was no one's fault."

"Thanks for trying Ichiro but you know that's not true," Kagome answered forcing a weak smile but refused to look up, his face would only depress her more.

"Uh… Kagome maybe you should see something," Miruto said in awe then pointed at the reincarnation.

"What is it… Inuyasha?" the young priestess stared at the boy how she believed to be Ichiro. Though his size and clothes remained the same it seemed that his face had been altered. His normally brown eyes had shifted to a gold hue and the dull outline of the blue crescent on his forehead had completely disappeared. His striped black hair had turned solid silver though still only reached half way down where his ears had been. They had been replaced by two triangular dog ears on the top of his head.

A confident smile spread over the hanyou's face after hearing his name, "Yeah, I thought you might need me so here I am. Damn it's good to have a body again, even if Ichiro cut his hair to short," the deceased demon told them then rolled back his reincarnation's shoulder's until he heard a crack.

"Inuyasha, I'm so sorry, it's all my fault you killed yourself. Can you ever forgive me?" the teenage girl cried as she approached him.

"No," Inuyasha told her then watched Kagome's disappointed face, because there's nothing to forgive. I know I was upset back then but the good thing about being dead for as long as I have is it gives you time to reflect. Miruto may not remember what you wrote but I do. You said that the well was changing and that you decided to stay in your own time because there was someone there who needed you more then we did. At the time I didn't understand and I guess I just felt abandoned, it wasn't even until recently that I realized what you meant." (Yes Inu's matured XD)

"Recently?"

"Well yeah, what do you think I do all day, sleep? Unfortunately I can't even do that until the kid does. So pretty much the other lives and I just watch whatever the kid does all day," the possessor explain then turned to the elemental, "As for you, even if you hadn't said anything I probably would have killed myself anyway. See what you didn't know was that for the fifty years thet I was gone, I constantly searched for the demon who could defeat me, but not surprisingly I couldn't. Then one day the runt came to me and told me that Sango had died. I was upset then I remembered you and your power and thought that if you could beat me it finally would be over and if not I could always steal the jewel and become a full demon. But when I heard what you said I knew that it needed to end right there so I took my own life so I could spare you the pain of doing it yourself."

"Thanks, that helped a lot but I can't help wondering, where's Ichiro?" Miruto asked wiping the remainder of the tears from his face.

"He's in here too, and he'll be back soon. We dead aren't meant to walk among the living for too long but before I leave there's one more piece of business I need to take care of," Inuyasha informed his curious friend then walked up to Kagome. He grabbed her by the shoulders the leaned down to and touched his lips to her.

Miruto waited for the two to finish for almost a minute before thinking, "Maybe I should tell Kagome he transformed back awhile ago."

A few minutes later the three friends walked down the stairs carrying Miruto's suitcases, "Hey bro your finally back, what took you so long I wanna get out of here," Kinbari complained.

"Chill out I just wanna say goodbye then we'll get out of here," her twin retorted then turned to face his gracious hosts, "Mrs. Higurashi thank you for your hospitality and kindness I promise to pay you back some day."

"Oh you don't have to, it was my pleasure. Besides it was nice to have an extra hand around the house, none of my kids will do the dishes," the woman told him then sent him a friendly smile.

"Souta, you know I'll miss ya, remember what I showed you (see end notes for details to reference)," Miruto said then rubbed the younger boys head, quietly laughing at the annoyed look on his face, "Oh yeah and how could I forget about you gramps, keep practicing those seals and I'll test them out for you next year."

"How many times do I have to tell you don't call me gramps? I'm not that old!"

"Kagome it was nice seeing you again, if you need my help don't be afraid to ask, my email address is the demon informed the black haired girl then approached the only remaining person in the room, "And finally Ichiro I wanted to ask you something. I was just wondering if you might wanna come back to our world with us. It doesn't have to be forever, you could stay for the year with me then come back next year. So what do you say, it could be fun."

"Sorry but I'd rather stay here and finish up high school but maybe next year," the striped haired boy replied then stared at Kagome for a moment.

"Oh I understand, then why not just come for the night? It might be a good experience for you. There's still a few hours left until the portal closes and even if you don't get out in time I could probably pull some strings and return you tomorrow," the incarnate persistently asked.

"Well I suppose if it's just for tonight it would be ok," Ichiro replied as he rubbed his chin.

"Cool then it's all settled, come here Kirara," Miruto happily said then called for his demon cat. She meowed her final goodbye to Buyo then jumped into her owner's arms, "See you guys next year!" Miruto waved goodbye then grabbed Ichiro's shoulder with his left hand and disappeared in a water cyclone. Takashi held onto Shippou as his sisters grabbed Miruto's suitcases and they all teleported in a similar fashion to their brother.

"Ruri do you think I'm old?" Grandpa asked his daughter.

"Oh my I'd better go clean up the kitchen," his daughter nervously then ran into the next room.

Kagome and Souta watched as their Grandfather's gaze shifted to them, "I'd better go help out Mom."

"Wait for me Kagome!"


Yeah I'm finally finished. God this took me twice as long as my other chapters though it makes sense since it's twice as long XD. Anyway I have a surprise for you guys, the truth is this is only the end of the story's plot. The fact is I really want to write more about these characters so from now on I'm writing a new chapter after every ten reviews, by this I mean whenever the reviews are 50, 60, 70, 80, etc… These chapters will skip around a lot with time so make sure to check the disclaimers. Also they're going to cover a lot of areas like the 9 monthes I skipped over while Sango was pregnant, the 2 ½ monthes I skipped over between last chapter and this chapter, the four hours I skipped this chapter, Ichiro's journey to the demon world, the events of the night the demons escaped in detail and a lot more so please review a lot. Anyway I need to go write a few chapters of TKP then write my new fic which will either be on Danny Phantom or Fruits Basket, I can't decide. Oh well see ya and as always R&R.