After a long day of school both children came home and ran up to their room where they found the journal still on the desk where they left it while they went to school.
"Hurry up and open the book." The young boy squirmed as his sister opened the book.
"Alright lets start!" the girl said excitedly as she started reading.
"I wonder what Kagome's family is doing right now. I wish I could go see them but I think they will still be grieving as I am. Sango and Miroku left Shippo and me today…
"Do you really have to go?" Shippo asked innocently.
"I am sorry Shippo but I think we should" Sango said bending down to hug the small child that they grew to know.
"Inuyasha, it has been nice knowing you." Miroku said putting out his hand.
"Yeah" Inuyasha said in a monotone voice putting out his hand to shake Miroku's hand.
"Hope we will see you guys later." Sango said turning around with Miroku to go off on their new life together. "Do you think we left them alone to early?" Sango whispered to Miroku.
"Naw, they will be fine" Miroku whispered as they walked off. "Maybe we will see them again you never know."
"Yeah." Sango said worriedly.
"What should we do know?" Shippo asked leaning onto Inuyasha's feet.
"I don't care." Inuyasha sighed turning around, thus making Shippo fall down. Inuyasha stopped when he heard whimpering behind him. He turned around to see Shippo with his eyes starting to tear and a scrape on his arm. Inuyasha rolled his eyes and went over to pick up the small child. "You need to stop acting so much like a child." Inuyasha whispered once Shippo was in his arms.
"Let me just grow up." Shippo snapped at him.
"Don't start with that attitude."
"Sorry Inuyasha." Shippo whispered.
"Now what do you say we go back to Kaede's hut and fix that cut?" Inuyasha whispered.
"Do we have any snacks left?" Shippo asked.
"You gotta slow down on those snacks if you want them to last." Inuyasha smiled down on the small child.
"I know it, they just taste so good."
"Yeah, they do don't they?" Inuyasha smiled at all the thoughts of him taking advantage of Kagome's snack offerings, how he actually would hoard the food from everyone else and eat all of it.
"Inuyasha" a small voice yelled out his name.
"What?"
"You were off in another world for a few seconds there." Shippo said still in the hanyou's arms.
"Sorry" Inuyasha said.
They finally made it to the hut, the hut were at one point they would all sit around and laugh and cheer, a hut that at one point was a meeting spot for all of the friends when they had to run off to do something, whether it be Kagome going to school or Sango having to fix her weapon. It was here that they would sit around and wait for the group to become whole again. Except this time, there was no whole. There was no Kagome returning with snacks or Sango and Miroku coming back after a long walk somewhere. This hut was the place where they met up and now it was where Inuyasha felt lost the most. He walked in to see Kaede cooking a meal. Both the males were lucky that Kaede reluctantly took them in, knowing they would have no place to go.
"Hey Kaede." Inuyasha said while sulking. "Shippo hurt himself."
Shippo jumped down to let Kaede tend to his cut.
"So they left?" Kaede spoke up breaking the silence while she helped clean Shippo's cut.
"Yeah." Inuyasha sighed, he was sitting in the back corner of the hut. It was hard to see his body in the shadows but his silver hair stuck out like a soar thumb.
"Ye need to start to act livelier Inuyasha, it has been over a month and ye mourning like this aren't good for your health."
"Health? I don't care about my health."
"Maybe you should if ye care for Shippo at all."
"Thank you for cleaning my scrape." Shippo said to Kaede.
"Why don't both of ye go outside for a bit and play?"
"I am not a kid." Inuyasha snapped at her.
"I know but fresh air is good for ye both."
"Come on Inuyasha." Shippo said tugging on his sleeve.
"Fine I'll go outside for a bit." Inuyasha smiled down on the small child.
Shippo ran outside with Inuyasha following behind him. Shippo jumped on Inuyasha's shoulder and than jumped on the top of his head.
"Get down." Inuyasha told him grabbing the small child from his head.
"Can we go swimming?" Shippo asked him.
"I don't want to swim right now." Inuyasha whined.
"But Kagome always swam with me." Shippo whined.
Inuyasha scowled at the whimpering kid. "Fine lets go."
"Really?" Shippo asked, "lets go!" he started bounding after the river where he always swam with Kagome.
Inuyasha ran behind him until they got to the small river. Shippo quickly undressed and jumped right in, Inuyasha on the other hand refused to get in right away. "Come on Inuyasha." Shippo said paddling over the hanyou.
"Do I have to go in?"
"Yeah." Shippo watched as Inuyasha walked down into the pond until he was treading the water. "You are going to leave your clothes on?"
"Yeah."
"But won't they get wet?"
"They are wet aren't they?" Inuyasha answered him.
Shippo just laughed and started splashing Inuyasha.
"Stop don't do that."
"And what are you going to do about it?" Shippo asked paddling around Inuyasha.
"This." Inuyasha said before putting his hand over the small child's head and than dunking Shippo under the water.
Shippo quickly got out of his grasp and came up for air, "That wasn't fair." He yelled.
"Is this fair?" Inuayasha asked before splashing the child.
Shippo returned his question by laughing and splashing back.
Kaede walked in on the two splashing each other in the river. She smiled when she heard them both laughing while splashing each other. "Dinner is ready when ye are ready." She yelled than walked off. 'Inuyasha I am glad that ye are starting do better.' She thought up.
Inuyasha looked up when Kaede yelled to them. "Shippo are you hungry?"
"No not right now!" Shippo laughed out than splashed Inuyasha again.
They were in the water for thirty more minutes splashing each other before they both decided to go. "I don't want to go back yet." Shippo said shaking off the excess water.
"What do you say we stay out and look up at the sky for a bit?" Inuyasha asked before scooping the small child in his arms.
"Alright let's do that." Shippo said still in Inuyasha's arms.
They sat up on a grassy hill, it was starting to get late and the stars started to come out. The both lay on there backs looking up at the sparkling wonders.
"Inuyasha where do you think Kagome is right now?"
"I don't know."
"Do you think she can see us?"
"I don't know."
Shippo sighed, "Do you believe that everything turns into a star when they die?"
"No."
"But if you don't believe that, than what do you think happens when you die?"
"There is this human thing my mom told me about when I was younger. She told me that there is a heaven and hell. In heaven you get everything you ever wanted but hell is a place you never want to be."
"Do you think she is in heaven?"
"I can't say, my mom said that you could only go to heaven if you believe in God."
"Who is that?" shippo asked.
"My mom said He is who created this place; he created both of us and everyone that lives here."
"Oh" Shippo said. They laid there in silence for a few minutes both thinking about how they would watch the stars with Kagome when she was there.
"What do you say we head back now?" Inuyasha said getting up to yawn and stretch.
"Alright, I was starting to get hungry anyways." Shippo said jumping up to follow Inuyasha back to the hut….
Well I guess you can say that I am starting to get better without Kagome around. I mean, I still think of her several times a day and she always comes up in my thoughts whenever I have a thought of her. Shippo's did raise a good question though, is Kagome in heaven? I mean she was a good person and never did anything wrong but did she believe in God? Does she have to, like my mom said or is there something I am missing? I guess I will have to find out when time comes for me to be able to see her again. I can't wait to see both my mom and Kagome again. Maybe I will go to Kagome's family to see her grave site, just to make sure she is buried and what not."
There is the next one, tell me what you think…. ;) I must say it is hard to switch between this sad story and my other story with a completely opposite story line.