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Shippo ran and caught the girl just before she hit the ground. He ran to the cottage and placed her down on the ground easily.

Grabbing her right hand and holding it tightly, Shippo's eyes filled with tears and he said, "Hold on... Just hold on... Please!"

Kaede's body was covered with blood, and she struggled for every breath, blood filling her lungs. She tried to talk, but it only caused her to cough up more and more blood.

"No! Don't try to talk! Just hang in there for me, please!" Shippo pleaded.

The demon puppet moved towards the two and laughed evilly.

"Do not worry, she will die!" the puppet said in a harsh tone.

Shippo realized what he had to do. He gently put Kaede's hand back down and turned to face the demon.

"You're...going...TO PAY!" The fox demon jumped up at the puppet, and full of rage he yelled, "FOX FIRE!"

The fire grew to enormous per portions which engulfed the entire puppet and the heat grew in intensity, which singed the puppet completely into nothing but ash. Shippo had destroyed the final demon puppet.

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Naraku stared at the four wooden shikigami dolls and watched them one by one be destroyed. After the fourth one was lost he looked up at Kagura, who was staring out of one of the castle windows.

"Kagura..." he said.

She turned and looked at him with her beady, red eyes staring into his.

"It seems as though InuYasha's daughter has died... Make sure to spread the word..." he ordered.

Kagura looked at him with a shocked facial expression.

"How could she have died?! She was supposed to be stronger than that!" Kagura thought just before she nodded and flew away on her feather.

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Shippo landed back on the ground and stared at ashes that fell from where the demon puppet had been. He then turned to see that Kaede was still struggling with her breathing. He then ran to her side and picked her hand back up, holding it tightly.

Kaede's eyes stared up at him, acknowledging his fears. She was dying... He stayed with her for a few more seconds trying to think of ways to save her. Just as he was hoping that she would stay alive, Kaede drew her last breath and then the life drained out of her eyes and her head turned to the side.

Shippo's heart sank deeper within his stomach as he dropped her hand and yelled at her, "No... NO! You're not going to die! You're not going to die!"

The fox demon began to pump away at the girl's chest, hoping to jumpstart her heart. He had seen Kagome do this once before when she was trying to revive a human who had been attacked by a demon and afterwards asked her what it was that she had done to help the man.

"Don't be stupid and die!" he shouted again.

"No! You promised me that you wouldn't die, and I'm not going to let you break that promise! You're going to survive whether or not you want to! So quit trying to die and WAKE UP!" Shippo just continued to pump at the girl's chest until his tears started to stream from his eyes.

Stopping the palpitations, Shippo put both of his hands on either side of the girl's head, leaned down to one side of her head and whispered, "You can't die because... because I care too much for you... and you're not allowed to break my heart like this... not while I'm around!"

Sitting back up Shippo began to pound his fist against the girl's chest, hoping that harder pumps would help. When he stopped for a short second he noticed that the girl had gone completely pale... She was gone this time... He picked her up and held her body tightly close to his.

"KAEDE!" the boy yelled up in the air.

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It was late at night, and everyone was asleep in old Kaede's hut. That is except for InuYasha, who kept a vigilant watch over his love. He decided to leave for a moment to go to the well and check on things and as he walked out of the hut he began his sprint off to the well.

As the demon approached the well he could smell the familiar scent of the wind sorceress. Which made his blood boil just enough to sprint faster and faster until he had made it to the lip of the well. Looking around he didn't see anything.

"InuYasha..." the woman's voice spoke suddenly and the boy turned and saw her looking at him in despair.

"What do you want, Kagura!" InuYasha asked in a furious tone as he drew out his Tetsusaiga.

"Don't bother, I'm not here to fight you... I'm here on Naraku's orders to tell you something..." she said in a low-toned voice.

"What is it then?!" he asked.

"... The woman you have been traveling with... the priestess who has the scent of a demon..."

InuYasha looked at her in shock and asked, "What do you know about her?!"

Kagura's eyes shifted away from his and she said, "She's dead..."

InuYasha lowered his sword to the ground looking at the woman in an even bigger shock than before and then raised the sword once more.

"You don't know what you're talking about! She's not even anywhere near here!" The dog demon realized that Kagura couldn't have known that Kaede was dead because she didn't know about her being back in her own era.

"I know... She went back to her own time... That's how I know..." Kagura then threw her feather up in the air and flew off, leaving InuYasha buried in terror.

"What?! But... How could she have known about that?!" InuYasha's heart raced as well as his mind as he looked down into the well.

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It had been several hours since Kaede's death, and Sota, Rin and Jaken had decided to return to the cottage to see what had happened. As they approached, Sota noticed something.

"Wait a minute... What's that sound?" he asked as the other two strained to listen.

As they approached a little closer they could clearly hear the noise. It was the sound of a man crying. The loud squeals and sobs rang out through the area. As they walked into the clearing, they could see Shippo kneeling on the ground, holding Kaede and rocking back and forth.

"Shippo? Kaede?" Sota asked as they approached the two.

As Sota walked around to the front of Shippo and saw the bloody mess of his niece.

"Kaede?!" he yelled as he sat down in front of Shippo, looking over the girl's wounds.

"What happened?!" Sota asked.

In between sobs, Shippo said, "Naraku... puppet... killed... Kaede!"

Rin stared down at the girl who's face was a pale white. She reached down and touched her cheek, and felt it's loss of warmth.

"She's... she's dead!" Rin said shocked.

Rin's eyes filled with tears and she ran into the cottage. Jaken looked over the girl as he approached her.

"She was destroyed?! This can't be good... Now Naraku will rule all era's!" The imp said angrily.

"Shut up!" Shippo shouted at Jaken, which caused the imp to fall back.

Sota pulled up one of the girl's hands to his face and rubbed it quickly in order to try and bring back the heat to her body.

"She can't be... This just... I can't deal with this... she was the only family that I had left..." Sota didn't know if he could handle another death...

"You will not lose your family Sota..." Rin said firmly as she appeared from the cottage and walked to the, still sobbing, Shippo and the mourning Sota.

Sota and Shippo looked up at Rin from teary eyes and saw that she was holding something in a large cloth.

"What do you mean?" Sota asked in a small voice.

Rin knelt down to the two men and uncovered the cloth.

Shippo stopped sobbing abruptly and his eyes grew wide.

"What is that?" Sota asked completely clueless.

"It's... It's the Tenseiga!" Shippo yelled with a glimmer of hope.

"For some reason, Lord Sesshomaru gave this to me the day that he died. He told me that I would know who to give this to... Shippo, I cannot use this sword because I am human... But you may be able to make some use out of it," Rin explained.

Shippo's eyes were still wide in amazement. He just barely managed to break himself out of this dazed state and he slowly and gently laid Kaede's body down on the ground and accepted the sword from Rin. Pulling it from it's sheath, Shippo held the sword up and saw the blue aura form around it. His puffy, red eyes looked down to Kaede and saw several small, strange demons around her body, looking as if they were feeding off of her soul.

"Stand back..." Shippo said firmly.

Sota, Rin and Jaken stood back as Shippo focused on the girl and then stepped forward, slicing away at the demons that surrounded her body. As soon as he saw the demons disappear, he knelt back down over Kaede and listened. The others just stood still and waited. Shippo began to give up on the idea that Kaede could have been brought back to life after being dead for so long, and then he heard it...

"Buh-Bump...Buh-Bump..."

Shippo jumped in shock which scared the others. The fox demon picked up Kaede and cradled her in his arms.

"Open your eyes... Wake up and open your eyes... Please!" Shippo whispered into her ear.

Kaede mumbled and her eyes slowly opened. Her golden amber-colored eyes opened just a little until Shippo could see every part of them. Kaede looked around for a moment before laying her eyes on Shippo's red face. She only wondered what was going on until she could smell her blood-soaked kimono. Her blood mixed with... something salty? What was that smell? She looked back up at Shippo's face and saw his eyes. They were red and puffy.

"Tears? Is that what I smell all over me? Did Shippo cry... for me?" Kaede thought to herself.

"Hey... Talk to me..." Shippo pleaded as he gave her a gentle shake. He worried that her straying eyes meant that she hadn't totally come back to her senses.

"...Hey there..." Kaede said in a small, strained voice.

Shippo laughed and hugged her tightly and said, "Hey, yourself!"

Kaede looked down and saw the Tenseiga on the ground and instantly knew what had happened. She smiled and reached up to hug Shippo back.

Sota and Rin smiled with tears welling up in their eyes. Tears of happiness from knowing that the girl was alive and well again. Jaken sighed in relief knowing that the future had a chance at changing.

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Back in the past, after pacing back and forth by the well, InuYasha had finally decided to go back to the old woman's hut and wait by Kagome. When he arrived he saw that everyone was still asleep except for his love. She was sitting upright, the color in her face had returned.

"Kagome?" InuYasha whispered as he sat down next to her.

"How... How are you feeling?" he asked.

"It's weird but... I feel much better. I don't feel sick, and for some reason, my worry has gone," she said with a smile.

InuYasha took Kagome's hand and held it tightly. Her worry may have gone, but his own worry would remain, so long as he knew that their daughter had died.

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Chapter Teaser!

"Hmm? You mean Kaede?" Shippo realized.

"Yes, InuYasha and Kagome's daughter!" Myoga said to make his point.

"Well then, why didn't you say something then either?!" Shippo was beginning to get frustrated.

"I was going to! But then when you two started to battle, and you were knocked unconscious, I saw something... Something very dangerous indeed.." the flea began to explain.

"We defeated the demon, Myoga! It was safe to come out and tell us that you were there afterwards!" Shippo pointed out.

"It was not the demon that I feared... It was Kaede.." Myoga finally said.