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Thank god fanfiction is working again! i was starting to think that the one story i do finish i wouldn't be able to put the last chapter up... i don't know fanfic was being a bitch. so i read other peoples storys. also i wanted to to at least get 100 reveiws, can you make my goal come true?

After rereading the old chapters I think I know what I'm doing now, or more of what I wasn't. So here it is chapter 16. Hope you like it

Chapter 16

Naraku looked down at the demon in front of him. He liked the idea of taking a human's body to make the others believe that he was human but how did this demon hide the aura that every demon has, was what they all thought besides Youko. He knew the secret of how it happened. He had a front row seat to it, the enchanted buckle kagome give him. And the human soul he used to help himself live. The child's soul was still with Kurama, more along the lines of the child was Kurama now. They became one and the same. They all looked at Kurama, he eyes the color of the sun; gold, as he pulled a seed out of his red hair it seemed and used some of his power to help it grow into a rose. The color was gorgeous and rich. The color of his blood and hair didn't even match to this flower's boldness. He moved his hand down that held the rose as it turned into a green whip that had the rose's thorns. The silences that followed this act was broken by Naraku's laughter. "I knew it was you …Youko…"

-Flashback-

'I can finally go and give kagome this shard-' He was knocked out of his thoughts and stopped dead in his tracks when he felt his own power close by. 'How can this be?' Youko turned right, running toward a hut, Rin, ah-ou, and Jaken almost right behind him.

He was almost there, just a few more steps when he stopped. He found what he was looking for… 'A human…? No that's no human…'. Looking at the demon, Youko realized that it was himself… in a weird older way. He was using a human soul, something must have happened. Youko had just learned how to that in the time of need, only.

"Hey," Suichii said to Youko. "Didn't think I'd see you around kind of didn't want to. I haven't seen those clothes in 500 years…I think kagome's coming back, I can smell her."

"I know who you are; this is great so I live for 500 more years. And still get her. Oh hey can you give her this?" Youko said to Suichii. He handed him a small purple shard, Suichii nodded and put it in his back pocket of his pants. "I was going to give it to her but you can,"

"She doesn't know it yet; so don't tell her." Suichii turns around and starts to walk then stops.

"Oh and if she gives you something, always take it. No matter what it is. Believe me, it will be worth it." He continued to walk but to the village were kagome and her friends where going to be.

"Good to know." He said to himself, and jumps into the air and disappeared once more. Not knowing that someone was listening to the whole thing…

"I was…around when I noticed that there were two of the same demon. So I got a look and saw you two conversing with each other. It was something to look at, very strange. How did you do it? Lying to the very same person you wanted to protect…?"

'Youko? That was Youko all this time? Inuyasha was right and I didn't believe him, Suichii is Kurama and Kurama is Youko. How didn't I see this happening?' kagome blinked her eyes was she gazed at Kurama's back. She looked down into her hands and stared at the unbuckled collar she held. 'There were so many signs…maybe that's why Inuyasha asked me to put the beads on Youko when we were by ourselves…'

flashback

It was the night of the moonless sky and Inuyasha was human. All was well until a demon came around. One they hadn't seen before. He was odd, and they all thought he was a half demon like Inuyasha because he had the ears on top of his head. But Inuyasha thought differently, he knew that this demon was a full fox demon. He wanted the jewel from kagome and she said she wouldn't give it to him. Since Inuyasha was human that night he couldn't do too much and Sango, Miroku, and Kirara tried there help kagome keep the jewel. But Youko thought if he couldn't just grab the jewel and leave then he might as well just take the whole deal and grab the girl along with it. Well that much of his plan worked until he really started to get to know her. In the morning the group found her sleeping under a tree in a field of roses. But the odd thing was that after that night she seemed to like Youko. Maybe it was because he didn't try and take the jewel, and on top of it she was happy. It had been around the time that Inuyasha would always go and see Kikyo so to see her happy was kind of odd.

"If you know we're to be seeing him around then I think you should put prayer beads on him also. You can't forget what he is kagome, a demon."

Kagome nodded because she knew he was telling the truth and that she should really do it but she didn't know if she could or really wanted too.

"…And that's why…I had put it on him to begin with. To have control over how he acted; unknowing that he killed a village just to help me get the jewel pieces. And now I know that it was hiding himself from me in my time." Kagome said to herself. She looked back up at Youko who was moving secretly behind Naraku. They were all in tune to what Kurama was doing that no one saw him. Until Naraku stabbed Youko in his heart, did they all look at the demons. The foxes hand on the jewel around Naraku's neck. Shippo called out his name and Sango closed her eyes as she saw his lifeless body falling to the ground. But before it could his body glowed and turned into a ball of blue energy that was his soul. Flying into the sky, toward the sun. Kurama's eyes followed it until it couldn't be seen. "Now that that's done, I can kill you, Naraku…"

It had been a while since Yuske had seen Kurama, wondering what had happened to him and if everything was going fine in the past. 'Man its weird knowing that my friend is in the past fighting something evil and here I am sitting in class looking at clouds…' just at that thought it seemed like time stopped. Nothing was moving in the class; the teacher's voice stopped, making Yuske realize it to begin with. He stood up and walked down the row of desks and stop in front of the teacher, waving his hand in front of his face. Just then Kuwabara came running into the room breathing heavily from the run to get to Yuske's class. "Uramashi… did you…did you see what happened?" Yuske answer was a look that made Kuwabara see how dumb the question was. Then a light came from the corner of the class room making the both of them look. Out of a portal came a baby blue haired woman in a pink kimono. "Botan…you did this?" she nodded but she looked kind of out of it. "Please… come with…me. I can't… I can't hold this much longer…" They ran into the portal not even thinking about what their teachers might say.

As they appeared on the other side Kuwabara noticed Hiei standing in front of Koenma's desk where the little god seemed nervous about something. Botan closed the portal, descending to sit wherever she fell but her oar came out behind her. "…Sorry for not telling you guy's anything. I just can't hold that spell very long." Botan floated out the office, not able to walk on her own. When the doors closed behind her Yuske looked over at the other group members and they looked at him. As if he knew the answer to all their questions. "If Botan had to use more then just a portal to get us here…, what's going on Koenma?" The god was pulled out of his thoughts by Yuske's words. Taking a deep breath he looked into the eyes of two men and of a demon. "I have some news about Kurama." They all listened carefully wondering what he might say. Hoping it wasn't the worst of all their thoughts.

"His past self was killed today. A memory I couldn't forget, cheating deaf. The thief stole time itself. To bad he had to wait five hundred years to see the very same girl he died for…" they listened on to his tale, no one knew that Koenma knew Youko from the past. Kurama never told them, though he did say that he was killed before. So no shock really to his death, but the date was another story. "Kurama should be fighting the demon, Naraku now. A fight they will win. But it saddens me to know that it is a fight in they're lives that will always go on. With no conclusion to their story; this is why I can't have you fighting in the battle as well. I hope you understand." They're faces seemed to say yes but their eyes were saying no, they didn't understand. Why can't they help one of their own friends?

"Koenma, how are they living in a circle?" Kuwabara asked. Trying to make a time line chart of it in his head.

"Youko will always fall in love with kagome. He will always help her, fight Naraku. Youko will always 'die', cheat death, wait five hundred years, live with his new mother. See kagome again and go in to the past to kill Naraku where he sees himself die again and so it goes on.

Inuyasha will fall in love with kikyo, get pinned to the god tree wait for years for kagome to free him. Fight demons to help her and soon run into Naraku and Youko."

"Kagome will always fall into the well, met Inuyasha, met Sango, Shippo, and Miroku. Fall in love with 'Suichii' find out it was Kurama and still love him.

Sango and Miroku will live with Shippo together and start a family. If you follow the family tree down five hundred years,"

Hiei cut in here, "You will meet the same girl that fell down the well."

"Wow…" Kuwabara said and then they understood what their boss told them about not getting involved in this battle. And plus the god knew they would win. What more could they do?

"Now that that's done, I can kill you, Naraku…"

Naraku held his head back and laughed. Inuyasha winced as his ears flattened to his head. The demon stopped and looked down at all the fighters. "You really think you can kill me?!" As he yelled this his arms flew up and he let his purple miasma smoke out and hundreds of demons fell out of the sky. Inuyasha threw his sword around and killed a few with one swing. Sango threw her boomerang and cut a few demons up with her sword. Shippo stood next to kagome who was now yelling at herself for falling for another demon and shooting her arrows at the ones far from her while Kurama slashed the ones around her. Miroku, unable to use his black hole in his right hand because of the bugs flying around; hitting them with his staff. All of them bleeding from one place or the other from cuts and gashes made by the random demons. "Hey! Kurama, you got any ideas?" as the last of the demons were killed Kurama said back, "I have no idea. I died before I saw what happened last time."

"You mean you saw all this before?" Kagome walked closer to him as he nodded. "I was killed before, just like the Youko in front of you. Soon I will be fighting again, with all of you. I don't know how many times this fight was fought."

Inuyasha seemed to understand it fast. "You mean that for- forever we will be fighting HIM?!" Inuyasha yelled as he pointed his finger at Naraku. Naraku started to lengthen his arms and swing them around, aiming for Inuyasha and Kurama the most. He block kagome's arrows along with Sango's boomerang. Miroku's wards didn't seem to really be doing anything but burn Naraku's flesh and melt then come back.

"Don't take life too seriously; it's not like your getting out alive…" Inuyasha stop and turned into the direction of the female voice he knew so well. He didn't even smell her coming, but how could that be. Her scent was burned into his noise. Always looking, smelling the air; wondering where she was and if she was thinking about him at the same time. "…Kikyo…"

"Ah, Kikyo. I'm happy you could make it to your death as well." Naraku swung an arm at her but Inuyasha jumped in front of it and blocked it with his sword, getting hit in his shoulder. The crimson liquid flowing down his left arm until it hit the floor in a droplet. "Naraku you're insane and one day you will suffer from it, living in an empty world you wanted so badly." Kikyo said as she came from behind Inuyasha, not wanting his help in killing Naraku. His respond to her statement was a laugh; "I won't suffer from this 'insanity', I'll enjoy every minute of it!" Kurama hit his shield with his rose whip, caching Naraku's attention. Kurama looked at Inuyasha from the corner of his eyes and then at the others, not so much kikyo but hoped she would help too.

Inuyasha threw his sword down as claw like marks glowed as they ripped apart the earth, flying toward Naraku. Before it reached him kagome and Kikyo shot arrows that broke Naraku's shield, kikyo's being a little bit stronger. Sango hit him in the head with the boomerang and Miroku threw his staff with a 'evil be gone' ward on it. After he was hit with Inuyasha attack he was left in pieces. Kurama walked up to him and smirked as the demon tried to pull himself back together. But to their surprise he couldn't. Kurama pointed, with his index finger as blood run down it to a single flower standing in the grass that was on covered in blood from the demons and Kurama himself. One of the demons bit his arm pretty bad.

"Youko planted it before he even talked to kagome. It's suppose to protect the one it was planted for, and because kagome's here it weakened you to the point that one hit did it." Kurama sighed as he thought about the day he planted it himself. It was supposed to be a gift for her. At least it helped in some way…

"How can …one little …flower kill me?!" After yelling his question that seemed to be ignored Naraku seemed as though he couldn't breathe. He gasped for air as his broken body seemed to melt away slowly. Kagome bent down to pick up the pieces of the jewel he had, it was almost whole. With her pieces the jewel was complete.

This time Kurama laughed as Inuyasha, and Shippo started. "What's going on?" Sango looked at Kirara on her shoulder as the little cat demon seemed to be on cat nip. "It must be the flower." Sango answered kagome. Sango saw this flower before; the flower threw off a smell that only demons could smell. And just as Kurama had said, protect the one it was planted for. "It sends of an aroma that kills demons slowly, I think we should get them away from here." Kagome picked up Shippo and pushed Kurama away from the flower as Sango pulled Inuyasha. Kirara followed behind her, bating a bell attached to Miroku's staff.

Kikyo stood in front of Naraku as he melted more; slowly his body was starting to look like the wax of a candle, only it didn't glow by a flame. His flesh seemed to disappear hitting the final stage of evaporation. Turning into the air itself… kagome looked back at her wondering what was going on. After moving Inuyasha, Kurama, Shippo and Kirara far away from the flower they seemed to be okay again. When kagome looked back kikyo was gone…

The moon was high and the stars shining, a pair of golden eyes looked into the sky watching as a star shot across the dark royal blue sky. It had been two days since the fight. Kikyo was nowhere to be found and Kurama told them that the small 'demon eater', as it was called, killed Naraku. Kagura, her heart beating in her chest, had her freedom and Kanna followed her sister, bread to only follow and never to lead, kagura hope that one day she would see the lord of the west again.

That next morning Inuyasha, kagome, Sango, Miroku, Kurama, and Shippo walked back to the village were kagome said it was time for her to go back, holding the jewel of four souls close to her chest on a chain of gold.

"Will you come back?" kagome looked down at Shippo and bent down to pick him up like a mother would do to a baby or a friend in their case. "Yes I will. I'll try and come every weekend." After all the hugs and goodbyes, even Inuyasha, kagome jumped down the well with Kurama.

The well house was dark and it seemed kind of wet inside. It must have been raining. Claiming out Kurama helped her, grabbing her yellow bag as she threw it up first then started up the rope ladder that her grandfather had gotten for her. Her black shoes touched the wooden hard floor of inside the well house. "I can't believe it's over now." Kurama failed to state the time wheel they were on would go on in a circle. Kagome walked up the steps with Kurama right behind her. As mad as she was at him she still liked him, but why didn't he tell her? Why did he lie about trying to kill Inuyasha? Then it came to her, she never asked him why he did try to do it to begin with. Walking down the path kagome thought it was time to, "Kurama," She caught his attention. She still felt weird calling him 'Kurama' and not 'Suichii'. "Yes?" she peeked at him from the corner of her eyes, he still held her bag over his shoulder and his eyes were back to being a wonderfully deep green. He didn't have the collar on yet but didn't want to leave it either. When he looked at her she continued what she wanted to know. "In the beginning you attacked Inuyasha, why did you do that?" Kurama stopped walking as they came up to her front door, she opened it and walked inside and closed it after him. Unfortunately her family wasn't there again. She really wanted to see them and announce that the fight was finally over. "It was because I saw how he made you feel. Your eyes always seemed so sad, trying to hide your true feelings. This kikyo, I knew you disliked her. And Inuyasha I don't know how he let you go, but" He walked over to her, close enough to touch her. Instead he warped a piece of her hair around his finger. Kagome looked up into his eyes as he talked as if seeing the past again of the times he talked about. "Then this might not have been happing now if I made him see the truth." He touched she pale cheek and pulled her chin closer to himself and kagome closed her eyes waiting for a kiss on her lips that wouldn't come, instead he kissed her forehead.

It was all true, she remembered those days. He would run off just at the sound of her name, her smell. She would stay up on the nights he would go to look for her and remember a line from a book she had read for a class. 'Why can't I be that girl? The one you want to talk to all your friends about. The one that puts that gorgeous smile on your face. The one that you want to be with. Why can't I be that girl?' Sure the book was about a crazy teen who needed this boy to live but that's the line that would always come to mind. Since kagome meet Kurama thought, Inuyasha and his girlfriend problems seemed to leave her mind. Was it something to do with his demon power or was it her heart? That was something she couldn't ask, not even him.

Kagome laid on her bed as she heard the water running from inside the bathroom where Kurama was taking a shower. Luckily he listened to her before they had left and brought a couple of pairs of clothes. She had already taken a bath and put on a pair of her pajamas and was slowly falling asleep. She hadn't meant to but the feel of her soft sheets just cried for her, almost as much as she cried for them. When the red head came back into the room he didn't want to wake her so he walked across her pink carpet and out the door toward the stairs.

Maybe it was time to talk to Koenma again, and he was sure it was time for him to see the others as well.

Yuske couldn't believe his eyes when he saw Kurama in school the next day. But today he didn't really have much to say; maybe it was because his girlfriend was transferred into this school. Which he seemed happy about. Kagome reminded them about the dress they had messed up when she first even knew about them, Kuwabara had a hard time trying to remember. After school Kurama said he had to go see his boss, kagome would see him later. As Yuske walked with Kurama and Kuwabara they both told all of what Koenma told them and said to do. "He said he didn't want us to live over lives in a circle."

"Your already living in the circle, I'll always meet you over and over again." Kurama said as they both looked at him. They walked up an alley and met up with Botan who smiled and welcomed them into the portal.

"Kurama, how did it go?" Koenma looked at the fox demon as he stood in front of him. Kurama smiled closing his eyes and tilting his head slightly to the right. "Great…"

Kun-loon and Shiori were sitting in a café talking about old days. Shiori picked up her tea cup and took a sip. They were once again catching up with each other. Talking about old friends and what their friends were doing now. Or what they should have been doing.

"Kagome started going to suichii's school you know. They seem too really like each other, I'm so happy it's working for them." Kun-loon said as Shiori tip another sip. She nodded and remembered Suichii saying that to her, she never saw him so happy and …there was something new that shined in there. But she couldn't see it. It was as though he saved it just for kagome, Shiori guessed the love for someone new.

"Now…" kun-loon said, it seemed Shiori was on the same page.

"The wedding!" they both said in unison. As they talked about dates and dresses and churches or at the shrine, Kun-loon looked back at all the things kagome had gone through and was just happy that kagome was back home. Suichii was a prefect fit for her. But she couldn't help feeling that there was more to him then they would tell.

"Maybe in four years and at the shrine, a traditional wedding!" Shiori added. Kun-loon nodded.

"Four years…"

"Hey kagome!" as kagome claimed out of the well with Kurama right behind her, Shippo ran across the field towards them and jumped into her arms. "Hello Shippo!" it had been two weeks since they came back, Shippo making it clear that she had said every weekend before. Miroku, whose wind tunnel was now gone, was walking over with Sango were now engaged themselves; Inuyasha was nowhere to be found. But kagome didn't mind, just spent the day with the three of them and told them she would see them soon. Inuyasha was looking for the woman who took his heart and kagome didn't care that it wasn't her anymore. Even more so, she hoped that kikyo would remember past Naraku killing her and look deeper into her memory when she and Inuyasha were in love.

But who knew what she may say but a god, and Koenma wouldn't tell Kurama. Saying it was nothing he needed to worry about.

Koenma seemed to know a lot of things, some times things he didn't want to share. Here he sat in his office and looked at the screen on the back wall. The picture on the screen was a happy one even though tears were shed. A wedding was happening and as they got into the limo and the driver was off once he heard the door close.

"I love you." Her answer was a kiss on the lips that told her how many times he had said it over the four years of waiting to finally say she was his. As he pulled away slowly she put her hand on his neck, feeling the collar she had given him over five hundred years ago. This one item lasted through all the years, "The buckle must be enchanted…"

"Why do you say that?" He started to play with her hair again, something he seemed to often do.

"It was with us for all the time we were together. That has to say something."

He brought her lips to his again, this day he would always remember. The day kagome was his bide, and the start of being really his forever…

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The end!! I can't believe it! It took me awhile but I did it!

I thought of ending it just with their mothers talking just as the story began, thus a huge circle, but it seemed empty and incomplete so I thought to do the end of the wedding. I mean most of the story was about them talking about it right so I guess I had to put it in.

Also about the fight with Naraku, I thought it was pretty bad myself so if you didn't like it, no offence taken.

One more thing- with Inuyasha I didn't know if I wanted him to have a happily ever after, thinking that maybe it would be too much or a sad ending because everyone isn't happy at the same time, let's face it. So I'll let you pick an ending for him. You can tell me what you would like but 'THE END' means 'the end'. I will not be adding anymore to this story. I was kind of getting bored with writing it out which is why I probably took so long… sorry.

Well I hoped you liked reading my story and please REVIEW your hearts out!

Thank you once again!

Aley-oxen