Forty-Four.
Not that she wasn't grateful for her friends and the little kitsune she was now openly referring to as her son. But she was young, alone, and watching Sango and Miroku's beautiful family only added to her grief, because even if Kagome was a part of it, she didn't have one of her own and she probably never would.
She had thought Naraku to be evil: she had never realized before that Fate was far worse.
That was the main reason she had accepted, without thinking twice, to help Sesshoumaru: she needed some time for herself, away from the village.
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(100 words.)