"Life hasn't been the same with out Kagome. Miroku and Sango seem to be better now, but Shippo and I are having a lot of trouble dealing with this. I didn't realize how close that brat was to Kagome. I have had at least one meal since she had passed away, and that was only because Sango handed me the food since then I have been in my tree, but Shippo refuses to eat. I have been sitting up in my tree, the tree that I first met Kagome. I keep thinking back on that day over and over, I look down at the spot and it feels almost like I can see her walking up to the tree where I she woke me from…
"Inuyasha." Miroku yelled while coming closer to the tree. "You have been up there sulking for a week now, come on down and eat."
"I don't have to eat." Inuyasha said plainly.
"At least come and help us make Shippo eat."
"He is a full demon; he doesn't have to eat all the time."
"That may be true but he is also a young child and he needs to eat at some point."
Inuyasha knew it was true and willed himself to jump down. Miroku looked upon the distraught hanyo. Miroku looked at Inuyasha's face; he saw the once exuberant expression in his eyes was replaced by teary, red, and puffy eyes evidence in itself that he was crying.
"Let's go." Inuyasha managed to say walking past Miroku and toward the village.
Silence was shared between the two the whole way to the village. Once they arrived to there destination, Inuyasha could hear Sango begging Shippo from inside the hut.
"Come on Shippo, you are a child, you are supposed to grow not shrink." Sango reminded him.
"I don't want to eat right now." Shippo whined.
"Not eating won't bring Kagome back; there is no point hurting yourself."
"I am living, besides Inuyasha hasn't eaten in days."
"Shippo eat something." A stern Inuyasha said walking into the hut.
"I keep telling her I am not hungry." Shippo was pouting.
"I know you are." Inuyasha told him. "I can hear your stomach."
Shippo showed his teary eyes at Inuyasha, "But you haven't eaten this past week."
Inuyasha sighed, "How about this, I will eat if you eat."
"Fine." Shippo pouted.
Both Inuyasha and Shippo ate two bowls of stew that Kaede had cooked up. They both forgot how good it felt to eat, even if they were practically being forced. "I miss Kagome." Shippo finally said looking down at his next helping of food. "I miss how her food was always spicy." A small tear fell into his bowl.
Inuyasha had a thought about that, "Yeah, I feel bad for always saying that I hated her cooking, I can't believe I said that, if I had a choice I would go back in time and punch myself for saying that."
"We all miss Kagome" Miroku chimed in. "But we need to start moving on and thinking about the future. That's what Kagome would have wanted."
"That's why Miroku and I are going to be leaving next week." Sango said with a monotone voice.
Both Inuyasha and Shippo stopped eating to look up at them. "You can't leave me here with Inuyasha." Shippo whined.
"I wouldn't take care of you anyways you brat." Inuyasha said crossing his arms.
"I am sorry but we heard that a young boy is near by going by the name of Kohaku and he is looking for his sister, I have a feeling he got his memory back!!" Sango looked so happy.
"And we are going to go find a place to settle down and start a family." Miroku told them excitedly.
"That was quick." Inuyasha whispered.
"What was that?" Sango asked him.
Inuyasha stared at them than yelled, "That was quick, it she has been dead for a week and you guys have already forgot her."
"We never forgot Kagome." Sango yelled starting to stand up and run at Inuyasha until Miroku held her back.
"Sango stop it and Inuyasha don't put word in our mouths. We can't just sit around all of our lives pouting over the loss of a good friend." Miroku told Inuyasha still trying to make Sango calm down.
"But what about me?" Shippo asked
"We talked to Kaede, you both will stay here with her until you guys find some other place to stay." Miroku told them.
"I see." Inuyasha said looking into his bowl. 'Everyone here is like my family, Kagome brought us all together and now we are separating because she is gone.' He pondered on and than whispered, "Sorry for yelling, I hope you guys find yourselves to be happy wherever you go."
"We can wait a week, we asked someone from the village to go find Kohaku and have him sit wherever he is until we can get there." Sango said settling back down on the ground.
"Why don't you just have him come here and stay with us?" Shippo asked
"Because we want to get away from everything around here and settle down. You know start new life. Around here I am known as the Demon Slayer and I don't want to be that person anymore. I just want to be another woman." Sango told them.
'I was hoping to settle down and start a family' Inuyasha told himself. "Just stay here for one more week." Inuyasha said looking up at them. "Than you can go do whatever you wish, deal?"
Sango and Miroku smiled, "deal" they said in unison.
"It appears that you have matured quite a bit within this past week." Miroku mentioned to Inuyasha.
Inuyasha gave a bit of a glare and than looked away in a solemn look. 'If only I acted more mature sooner.' He thought looking outside. It was getting dark, this was the first time since Kagome died that he was actually staying inside. Even when it rained for two days straight he stayed outside, as if expecting Kagome to jump back out and say something crazy like 'I was never actually dead, it was a joke.' But he knew it wouldn't happen.
"Inuyasha." He was brought out of his trance to Shippo calling his name.
"What is it?"
"Can I stay with you? I mean, Kagome isn't here anymore and Sango and Miroku are going to be leaving soon. I have no one."
"Sure." He plainly said. "You couldn't take care of yourself without me anyways."
"Can I sleep with you tonight?" Shippo asked.
"Uh…" Inuyasha didn't know how to respond. "Not tonight." He told the young child.
"Alright." Is all Shippo said and slumped off.
Inuyasha was surprised no please, no whining, no nothing, he agreed with him….
That's all that has been happening. I still miss Kagome, I only wish that she could still be around. Shippo ended up getting his wish when I saw him by himself on the floor shivering. I picked him up and he is sleeping in my lap right now as I write this. Maybe this is what it would have been like if I was able to have a family, to have a small child relying on you. I just smiled for the first time this week thinking about that!! While my life may not be complete without Kagome, maybe I can still find a way to be happy until I am able to see her again."
After the two finished reading the short passage, they noticed a smiley face written near the last paragraph.
"Aw, he actually smiled." The young girl said. "I wonder how many passages there are."
"There looks like a lot." The boy mentioned. "Lets get going, mom is going to wonder where we are."
"Alright" the young girl closed the book and stood up with it.
"Are you really going to bring that?"
"I want to read the rest of it. Than we can bring it back and put it back where we found it. Besides the guy is dead, he won't notice if his journal is missing." She winked at the boy.
When they got out of the musty old hut the young boy yelled. "I'll race you." And then started running down the path they came on.
"No fair you got a head start." She yelled running after him, book in tow.
That's it for now, I know it's a lil short but I figured it would be alright. I know that last chapter was depressing, hope it wasn't to depressing though. I wrote it like that cuz my rabbit died half way through me writing it and I actually changed out the way I wanted my story to go but I like it more this way cuz now it is different than my other stories. But it may take me a little while to get the next one out cuz now I have to change my whole story around now. Tell me what you think!!