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The Breakup
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Three weeks later...
Birthdays were a relatively new tradition but one they made a point to celebrate anyway. For those hanyou who didn't know their own birthdays - which was most of their generation - they had picked the same day - or they did whenever they had to change paperwork again. This go around they had all agreed upon this day in October in very specific years.
What year they picked had to have Friday the 13th.
It only made sense. A joke of sorts. It was their unlucky plot in life to be born hanyou. Or so they had all been told at one point or another. Their luck hadn't been all bad. Over the centuries a powerful hanyou and his miko mate had collected them and brought them into the fold of the pack. They had trained them to defend themselves and when they were fully grown, they were free to live life how they wanted but, honestly, what self respecting pack member would ever want to leave their family? And a family they were despite their immense diversity. Of all sixty three of them, there were only five related by blood. Inuyasha, Kagome, and their three children - the oldest of which was conceived before the well closed behind them on the opposite side of the well. As much as any child loathes to think of their parents having sex, that story was well known if only for the fact that it was the only rational explanation any of them could think of for why he possessed the ability to travel through time. It was a strange gift. He was able to go backwards but could never go forwards past the present as he knew it, much to his mother's disappointment. And none of them ever wanted to disappoint Mama. She could be even more terrifying than Inuyasha if you pressed the wrong buttons. Mama - as they called Kagome affectionately - was a special lady indeed. Upon purifying the jewel and wishing for it to disappear, Midiriko emerged one last time to bind her life span to Inuyasha's as a gift for finally being selfless enough to allow her to find peace.
It was a strange tale those two told them all. So unimaginable and far fetched that many of the newest pack members didn't believe their tale at first but one they were all told at one point in their lives. Mama and Inuyasha's lesson was always the same - given when a pack member needed it most - and it was true.
Never wish to be anyone other than yourself.
You are perfect exactly as you are.
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A/N: So ends my second fanfiction. Hope you enjoyed it!
