lostmoonchild: Hey, everybody! Here's chapter thirty nine for anybody who's been waiting patiently for me to update. I don't own Inuyasha or anything else unless I say otherwise.

Chapter Thirty Nine

Hana hummed happily as she wrote about her family. She was making sure to include how they all took care of her and how she takes care of her little brother. "Your family isn't like that!" A boy shouted when he ran his fingers over the Braille writing. "You're lying."

"Am not! My aunts and uncles and cousins and grandmas and grandpa and my new parents take care of me!" Hana protested taking the paper away. "I take care of my little brother and he acts as my eyes when my aunt Sango's cat isn't acting as a guide cat."

"Liar." The boy said. "Your family is broken! You don't have a proper parent."

"Don't you say Kagome and Inuyasha aren't proper!" Hana shouted standing up angrily. "Kagome takes care of me and Shippo and makes sure everybody is okay! Inuyasha keeps us all safe and nearly beat the crap out of his brother when uncle Sesshomaru came near Kagome and me!"

"HANA AND HIRO!" The teacher shouted pulling the two children away from each other. "What is going on here?!"

"Hana's lying about her family. She says that her family isn't broken anymore but she says that her cousin, Kagome, and some guy, Inuyasha, are her parents when everybody knows that her REAL father is in jail and her REAL mother abandoned her."

"MY MOM DID NOT ABANDON ME!" Hana screamed angrily starting to feel the need to burn something.

All the papers in the room began to smolder causing a bunch of the students to scream. Hana forced herself to calm down and she glared in Hiro's direction. "HALF BREED! HALF BREED! HANA'S A HALF BREED!" Hiro started chanting. "BURN UP, HALF BREED! STOP TAKING UP SPACE AND USING OUR AIR! JUST DIE ALREADY!"

Tears started rolling down Hana's face as she heard the rest of her classmates start chanting too. The teacher was trying to make all the students be quiet but by the time she had managed to get two of them to be quiet, a new wave of chants filled the room. So Hana did the one thing she knew how to do best.

She ran.

Kagome sighed as she listened to Gramps talk about some legendary battle that resulted in demons fleeing to the Makai in fear of being purified, smiling when the phone rang. "I'll be right back, gramps." Kagome said getting up to answer the phone. "Moshi moshi."

"Is Higurashi Kagome there?" A voice asked.

"Hai, this is her." Kagome said hearing the worried tone in the person's voice.

"Miss Higurashi, this is Mrs. Hiroshimo, Hana's teacher."

"Oh God, what'd she do this time?" Kagome asked. "If she beat somebody up and put them in the hospital, I'll make sure I pay the medical bills and have a stern talk with her."

"For once, Miss Higurashi, I wish she would have beaten somebody up." Mrs. Hiroshimo said sounding distressed. "But I'm afraid that's not the case. You see, earlier today Hana and her classmates were writing about whatever made them happy and she chose to write about her family. We found her paper under her desk, so we know what she wrote about her family."

"What'd she write?" Kagome asked feeling a little nervous.

"Mostly about how everybody took care of her and her adopted brother." The teacher said. "Some of how you've managed to take care of them while you were sick."

"She loves her family dearly." Kagome said simply. "She loves spending time around her uncles and aunts, we almost always have to remind her that she has to go to school."
"Well, we always appreciate that kids love spending time with their families, but I'm afraid that because of her loving her family enough to write about them she's been called a liar."

"What?" Kagome asked. "Hana may lie every once and a while but that's to be expected from a child."

"Yes, that's true. But then a student of ours, Hiro, started chanting "half breed, half breed. Hana's a half breed." before he told her to just die and to stop taking up space and wasting air."

"Oh god." Kagome said. "Is she still at the school?"

"You mean she's not there?"

"No. I wouldn't have asked if she was." Kagome said starting to get worried. "What emotional state was she in?"

"She was in tears."

"I'll look for her." Kagome said. "Excuse me, but I have to call her uncles and aunts to tell them so they can help look."

Kagome hung up the phone and ran outside to the well house. There were scratches on the walls now which told her that Hana had been here recently so she jumped in the well and smiled when she felt the gentle pull of time.

She landed on the ground and quickly climbed up the vines and saw Inuyasha sitting by the well. "Kagome, what's wrong?" Inuyasha asked.

"Is Hana here?"

"Yes. She told me that you'd be here soon and didn't want me to get you." Inuyasha said.

"Where is she?"

"In the old lady's hut." Inuyasha answered as Kagome started running towards the village.

"MAMA!" Shippo shouted happily when Kagome and Inuyasha came into Kaede's hut.

Kagome hugged Shippo and sat down near at a still crying Hana. "Nightingale." Kagome said gently.

Hana froze up and looked in Kagome's direction. "I didn't mean to run away, Ka-ka! I wanted to get away from those idiots!" Hana sobbed.

Kagome hugged Hana and let her cry for a little while. "Hana, what were you thinking?" Kagome asked. "You could have been kidnapped again."

"They called me a half breed!" Hana sobbed angrily. "Am I a half breed, Kagome? Would everything be better if I died?"

Kagome's eyes grew stern and she made Hana look at her. "Hana, I don't ever want to hear that name come out of your mouth." Kagome said sternly. "Being a half demon isn't bad so don't you act like being a half demon is a bad thing."

"I WANT TO BE HUMAN!" Hana shouted tears rolling down her face. "WHY COULDN'T MY REAL MOM HAVE MARRIED A HUMAN?!"

The look on Kagome's face told everybody that this wasn't the first time Hana threw that same fit. "If your mom would have married a human, would things have been better?" Kagome asked looking at her foster daughter with gentle eyes. "Do you think that if you were more human, she would have stayed? That things would be easier?"

"No." Hana whispered. "When Yusuke died, I was the only thing that kept you here. But why do I have to be a half demon?"

"Why do you want to be pure human?" Kagome asked. "Would your life be better?"

"Probably not." Hana murmured nestling against Kagome and breathing in her scent. "I wouldn't be able to run as fast as uncle Hiei and wouldn't know as much about the Makai like uncle Kurama."

Kagome nodded a little and said, "Now do you still want to be human?"

"Part of me will always long to be human." Hana murmured. "I hate being what I am, Ka-ka."

Kagome sighed softly and said, "We don't choose who or what we are, Hana. If I had a choice, I wouldn't be a Spirit Detective's daughter but I didn't choose my parents."

"No, instead you're being punished for what Kikyo did."

Kaede looked surprised and asked, "What did my sister do, child?"

"Besides pin Inuyasha against the tree, no idea." Kagome answered. "All I know is she was sentenced to five hundred years in Hell but only lived four hundred and eighty years of that sentence so I'm serving the remaining twenty."

"Yeah. She won't be finished with it until she's thirty four." Hana said happily. "Or was that when you are fifty three?"

"Lets not go there, nightingale."

Hana giggled and said, "I like that mental image, Ka-ka. You're a dried up old lady."

"And you've been pinned." Kagome said starting to tickle Hana.

Hana screamed with laughter and the next thing anybody knew, Shippo was laughing to when Kagome started tickling him. Both children tried to take Kagome down and cheered when Kagome let them win. "YAY! WE BEAT KAGOME!" Hana shouted happily looking pleased as she sat on Kagome's stomach.

"Yeah, and I'm sure any kid that I may have in the future will have a dent in its head." Kagome said laughing as she pushed Hana off her stomach.

"Didn' auntie say that she didn't want you having kids until you were married off?" Hana questioned.

"Sweetheart, she was aiming mostly for human terms of marriage. Demon terms of marriage is a different matter."

"What's so different about it?" Hana questioned.

"Easy. There's no "till death do us part" in youkai marriage." Kagome said with a small laugh. "You get marked, you're screwed. Your mate dies, you die."

"That's what Yusuke says. Except he says that even if you marry a human, you're screwed."

Kagome laughed and kissed her foster daughter on the forehead. "Yeah, well, he's gonna marry Keiko so he's gonna be screwed either way you look at it."

Hana smiled a little and leaned against Kagome before closing her eyes. "And its gonna continue for forever and ever and ever." Hana murmured starting to doze off.

"never to stop, not even when all we know is gone from our grasp." Kagome finished, acting like it was some story. "Because who we are, continues forever in the generations that follow and cannot be erased like the truth often is."

lostmoonchild: Okay, that chapter's finally done! I'm looking forward to this story being overwith and as far as I know, I'm not planning on making a sequel to it unless enough people ask for it. The rest of the chapters are done but need to be posted so I expect it to be over with in maybe a month if everything works out so read and review, flames are accepted!