The children finally came home after a long day of playing in the park to read the next passage in the journal. As they opened the book the next passage fell out.
"You broke it." The boy screamed.
"No, it was ripped. See the edges." The girl told the young boy pointing to the edges of the paper that was ripped in a diagonal position.
"Oh I see it now."
"I wonder why someone ripped this one out." The girl responded to the boy.
"Let's read it anyways, maybe we will find out later in the journal." The boy told her as she started reading
"Today was an unusual day. I went back to Kagome's time. Although it seemed to be different without her around. I miss her so much and yet there is nothing I can do for her, not anymore. Both Shippo and I have been getting closer. We both will talk for hours on random events that we have gone through and what we will do later in the week. I haven't hit him at all lately and he doesn't make fun of me like he used to. But anyways today was special, I went to Kagome's gravesite…
Inuyasha couldn't take it anymore he wanted to see where she was buried; he wanted to see for himself that she was truly dead. With that, he went through the well which luckily still allowed him through to go to the other side where he jumped out of the well on Kagome's side. He opened the door to the well house to find everything looking almost the same…keyword on almost. In front of the sacred tree was a grave stone. He slowly walked closer towards it afraid to read what was on the stone. On it he finally willed to read, "Kagome Higarashi…left us at too young of an age." He didn't care that there were numbers under her name but he felt bad, here he was living for two hundred years or so and still could easily get another five hundred and here was the woman he loved who died at age eighteen. "I am sorry Kagome." He whispered kneeling down to her gravestone.
"Kagome ever since you have left I noticed how much I truly need you. Shippo and I are doing better now then when you first left us, I mean at least we are eating now. Sango and Miroku left to go raise a family, yeah that's right they went through with there plans of marriage after Naraku died. A day doesn't go by that I don't think of you. I can't stay to long, I don't want you mother yelling at me again. I know your family probably sees me as a filthy half breed but I still miss you…" Inuyasha broke down and started to cry and think of how his life could have been if she lived.
Inuyasha was so consumed in his thoughts he didn't notice Sota come out of the house. "Inuyasha." Sota yelled running over to the half demon. "I am glad that my mom didn't scare you away forever." He yelled throwing his arms around the half demon.
Inuyasha lost his balance and fell over at the childs weight. "Sota? Where is your mom?"
"Inside, she doesn't know you are here yet." He said.
"Let's keep it that way." Inuyasha whispered messing up the kid's hair. "How was the burial?" he blurted out.
"It went alright. I wish you could have been there. I was hoping that you could pop out of no where for it and even my mom mentioned you there."
"What did she say about me?" Inuyasha asked.
"She said she didn't mean to lash out at you like she did. She is very sorry and she wanted to apologize to you and she wanted you to be there because Kagome would have asked for that but we had no way to get to you. She also said that she always trusted you and never doubted you."
"Did she really say all that?"
"Yeah, she truly meant it too. You need to go to my mother; she is a wreck right now. Not only because of Kagome's death, she is over that at least as much as she can be, but because she lashed out at you because she made you leave our family because we turned your story around. She realized it after she yelled at you." Sota said pulling on his kimono.
Inuyasha smiled before looking back at the gravestone. "I don't know if I can see your mother right now."
"Inuyasha?" they heard a voice from the house.
Both guys turned to see the mother of the only two people that truly accepted Inuyasha since from when they first met him, even before they knew his personality, they accepted him straight from when they first looked at him. "I will go." He said getting up to walk off.
"Wait." Kagome's mother yelled running over to him. "Please wait for me to explain my actions." She grabbed his arm making Inuyasha turn to her.
"Listen, I am sorry…" Inuyasha was cut off.
"No I should be sorry; I didn't mean to yell at you like that. I know you would never hurt my daughter on purpose. I knew you would never let anything happen to her. It was just that…that it hit me at once when I saw her dead lifeless body. I am sorry, you should have been there when we had her burial I realize that now." She had so many tears forming and her voice was breaking over every word.
Inuyasha wished he didn't come back now but he could never turn down Kagome's mother. "I forgive you but you were right it was my fault. I should have made her stay here away from the feudal era but instead I let her get into the battle." He told her softly.
"No Inuyasha, it was never your fault. She always had a stubborn will; that is a curse from my side of the family I am afraid. But she would have gone anyways whether you told her to stay back or not. She always told me so much about you. She would tell me how much you protected her and she told me about when you made her upset. I was always told so many things about you but she never mentioned you hurting her physically just emotionally."
"Emotionally?"
"Yeah, she would come home at times in tears, she would complain that you ran of to see an ex that was called…I can't think of the name it started with a K."
"Kikyo." Inuyasha whispered.
"Yeah, she would be hurt emotionally but it never lasted more than an hour before she had forgiven you and was just waiting to see if she would hear from you."
Inuyasha looked down at the thought of her actually being hurt of something he did.
"Don't worry; you always seemed to make her feel better without you realizing it. She would tell me about times where you would give her your kimono at nights if she was cold or you would offer her rides while her bike was broken." Mrs. Higarashi told him.
Inuyasha smiled. "But she told me that she hated when I gave her a piggy back ride."
"That's not what she told us." Sota told him. "She would always tell my mom how she almost felt like leaving the bike behind and saying it was unfixable so that you could giver her rides everywhere."
"She did until Sota kept making fun of her." Mrs Higarashi told Inuyasha in an annoyed tone.
"Hhhm, I wish I had known sooner." Inuyasha smiled.
"Please come in for some tea."
"I would rather not. I came here to see Kagome's gravesite. I see now that she does truly have a gravesite and I trust you guys in keeping it well managed. I have to go now. I don't know if I will be able to always come back but I may be able to come back in every once in a while." Inuyasha told them.
"Wait Inuyasha. Before you go, I found a note in Kagome's room written for you. Let me get it." She said running inside and returning a few minutes later with an envelope and a few other things in a bag. "Read this and than I will explain what these are." She said handing him the envelope.
The envelope said, 'Please give this to Inuyasha. Only read once I am gone.' It was already torn open. Inuyasha assumed Kagome's mother opened it to see what was in it. Inuyasha took out the paper and read
'Dear Inuyasha,
I had a feeling that this would happen, call it a haunch if you would like, but I knew that I would end up dying before you. Please don't cry too much over me because I know that I am in a special place now. Not only that but Shippo looks up to you so don't beat yourself up or he will start to beat his self up. Remember the promise you kept to me and never back down from having the best life ever. As the old saying goes 'Don't take life to seriously, no one gets out of it alive.' Get it? It's a joke because we don't get it out alive. Alright so it may be a bad joke but it is one of my favorite sayings. Please watch over Shippo for me as I know you will. Tell him that not a day will go by that I wont think of him. I know that you may not believe me now, but trust me; you will start to find life getting better. You will know what I mean in a week or so. Just keep your horizons open to all possibilities. I am assuming that my mom probably read this before you got it and if that isn't the case than please ask her what each thing is in my list below. In this list is everything that I would like you to have. First of all is my favorite picture of you and I as well as the picture of the whole group. Please keep these safe as I know you will do. Second is the jewel, I don't care what you do with it but I trust you will make the right decisions with it. Third but not least I leave you my bow. I know you can't use it but it means a lot more to me than anything else. This bow is what I first learned with. Please keep track of it and make sure it doesn't get destroyed at all. As well as a present to you, I write here that you may ask Kaede to remove the necklace of subjugation off from your neck. I was going to do it but if you get this than that means I never got around to it. Please give Shippo my yellow bag. He always liked it and I know he will cherish it when it comes to holding his stuff in it. I will always love you no matter what.
Kagome'
Inuyasha looked up teary eyed to see Mrs. Higarashi holding the bow, the jewel and the pictures. "Here are the pictures she wanted you to have, the jewel and the bow." She said handing them all to Inuyasha. "When I found this letter, it was than I realized how bad I treated you. Sorry again for that."
"Keep the jewel." Inuyasha said handing her back the jewel.
"But she said that you…"
"I know what she wrote but that jewel has been nothing but trouble for me ever since I learned about it. Plus she said I can decide what happens to it and I decided to give it to you guys to watch over. Besides this world is a lot safer and you won't have anything coming after it." Inuyasha said looking down at the pictures in his hand.
"Inuyasha are you going to come back to see us sometime?" Sota asked.
"I don't know, I mean I don't belong here."
"You belong in both worlds" Mrs Higarashi told him, "Come back anytime you like."
"Alright, I will keep that in mind." He said, "I am going to go now. Bye and thanks for giving me her letter." He told them before walking back to the well.
Once on the other side he jumped out and made his way to Kaede's house and found both Kaede and Shippo inside it. "Shippo this is for you from Kagome." Inuyasha said handing him the yellow bag.
Shippo's smile widened when he got it and held on tight to his gift. "Thanks Inuyasha but how did you get it?"
"I went back to her time and I was given a letter written by her and that was written in there. Kaede, she asked me to protect this bow from getting damaged can you help me to make sure it doesn't get destroyed?"
"Aye, sure I can." Kaede said picking up. "I will put it in a secret spot." She said picking up a floor board and putting it in there.
Both males watched as she did that and found it odd but then again what about the old woman wasn't odd?
"Thank you" Inuyasha whispered. "She said that I will find something that will make me happy for the rest of my life in a few weeks." Inuyasha told them while looking over the note.
"How would she know?" Shippo asked.
"I don't know. It says so in the note she left me. It almost sounds like she knew when and where she would die." Inuyasha told them.
"That's impossible. No one can know when they will die." Shippo said.
"I believe that is true." Kaede said. "She would never be able to know when she could die. I am sure it was just a coincidence that she wrote the letter as she did."
"Yeah, I know it was coincidence but if felt like she knew she was going to die by Naraku." Inuyasha said. "I am sure she just assumed something might happen."
"Yeah that's what I bet it is. I bet she assumed." Shippo said in order to reassure both Inuyasha and himself…
There you have it. I still am trying to figure out how that letter felt like it was meant for that moment. Could it be possible in any way shape or form that she knew she was going to die by Naraku's hand? Could it be possible that some how she was able to tell that her life was going to end soon? One more question that still plagues my mind is how does she know that within the next few weeks I will start to be better and my life will be a lot better? Maybe these questions will be answered in time. Maybe I just need to relax and not think so hard…I mean thinking isn't my strong point."
The children turned to the next passage to find several more pages fall out. "What happened to the pages?" the boy asked.
The girl quickly picked them up in order that they fell as to not mismatch them. "Look, this is the letter the girl wrote." She whispered as they looked it over.
"Why are these other pages ripped?"
"Maybe someone was mad."
"Yeah, maybe." The boy said. "Maybe we will find out later."
"Maybe." The girl said as she put the book up on the book case. "But for now we are being called for supper. Coming mom." The girl said before both of them ran downstairs.
I am so so so so so sorry for taking so long to make a new chapter in here. I just got too carried away with my other stories. I started Captured and it just made me spend all of my time with it in order to put it up. Than I got busy with taking care of ducklings and ugh I just got busy lets leave it at that.
This story is being made so that it will be pieced together by the end. It goes in time order but some questions in the beginning may not be answered till the end. So please don't get mad if I don't answer a question in the story right away. As well if you have any extra questions about this please ask.
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