Songs: Tale As Old As Time and A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes from Disney
CHAPTER 20!!! long...Two fox demons stood in the doorway and we stared at them confused. "Umm…who are you?" I asked.
"My name is Chiko, this is my wife, Dai. We are Shippo's parents." The man said coming into the room and bowing to us.
"Midoriko told us that she would raise us rather than ask Shippo for a wish. She wanted to give him a surprise." Dai said smiling softly.
"That's wonderful! Shippo has missed you very much." Kagome said grinning.
"I was beginning to be afraid I'd have to raise the runt." Inuyasha giving then a half grin. Kagome blushed and turned to hit him but stopped when Chiko laughed. "He'll be real happy to see you."
"Oh, where are my manners." Kagome said standing. "I am Kagome and this is Inuyasha. This is Dawn and Mamoru, our friends, Mamoru's parents, Kimi and Haruki. This is Izayoi and The Great Dog Demon, and Dawn and Mamoru's children, Rinji and Nagisa." She said bowing.
"My lords, my ladies." The fox demons said bowing. "My Lord I was with you during the battle with the Cat Clan many years ago."
"I remember. You fought valiantly." The Great Dog Demon said returning their bow with a smile and a nod of his head. He stood and helped Izayoi to her feet. "If we are leaving in the morning for the marriage, your mother and I are going to bed Inuyasha."
Inuyasha stood quickly and gestured to one of the doors. "Follow me I'll take you to a room." The three of them left and Mamoru led his parents to a room of their own. Nagisa and Rinji ran out with Kaede when she led the fox demons to a place they could sleep and I grabbed onto Kagome's arm when she moved to rise.
"Stay, Kagome. I want to talk to you a bit." I said and tugged her back down.
"Sure what's up?" She said giving me a smile.
"You have one thing you really need to do before you and Inuyasha are fully together." I said seriously running a hand over her new ears.
She looked at me confused. "But…we are together! We mated, we're married!" She gave me a happy smile.
"You need to take off the rosary. Inuyasha will always think you don't trust him if you don't." I said giving her a kind smile in return.
"The rosary! Oh my God, I forgot he had it." She said and went running from the room.
I laughed softly and stacked the dishes from dinner up in a neat pile on the low table. I left the room and checked in on my twins. They were curled up together in bed and I kissed their cheeks softly. "Good night, my loves."
"Night, Mama." They yawned.
I moved onto my room and found Mamoru standing at the door talking to Kaede. "Come get us first thing in the morning." He said. "We'll leave as soon as it is fully light. Don't forget to find someone to watch over the place for you." Kaede nodded and waved to us both as she left.
I went into my room quickly shedding my clothes and crawling under the covers of the bed. "Are you happy my love?"
"Very. Are you happy?" Mamoru asked shedding his clothes as well and crawling in beside me and pulling me close.
"Mmm." I murmured kissing him gently. "We have our family here."
The next morning we had all gathered in the courtyard of our home when Sesshomaru and his gang landed. Shippo jumped from Kohaku's shoulder and ran at his parents. "Mama! Papa!"
"Shippo dearest!" Dai said gathering him into her arms. Chiko joined them and the Great Dog Demon went to greet his eldest.
"Hello Sesshomaru." He said staring at the son who had always wanted so much power.
"Hello Father." Sesshomaru said. Kagura tugged on his sleeve and Sesshomaru's face softened slightly as he looked down at her. "This is my mate, Kagura." Kagura bowed slightly and pulled Rin from behind her. "And this is our adopted daughter Rin."
The Great Dog Demon knelt in front of Rin and smiled gently at her. "I'm your grandfather."
"Hello sir! This is Kohaku. He's Lady Sango's brother." She said giving him her wide smile. "Are you coming to the wedding too?"
"Yes, we all are." Izayoi answered kneeling beside her husband.
"Yeah bro, we plan on making a BIG entrance." Inuyasha said grinning.
Sesshomaru returned his smile with a small one of his own. "Lead on, little bro."
Mamoru and I stepped far out into the open space and changed into our doggy forms. Izayoi, the Great Dog Demon, Inuyasha and Kagome sat on my back while the twins, Kaede and Kohaku sat on Mamorus. Sesshomaru changed into his dog shape and Rin and Kagura perched on his back and the three foxes sat behind them. The three of us ran full tilt for the demon slayers village.
Kanna glared at the door that kept them from being able to get to the human world. "Sesshomaru could open this. He did it once before."
Nozomi glanced at her. "You got a cell phone to call him with cause I don't."
"Cell…phone?" Kanna asked looking back at Nozomi.
Nozomi smiled and shook her head. "Never mind. Well lets think of something else." She said and walked up to the doors placing her hands on each side of the crack of the door. She closed her eyes and felt in her mind for the link between her and the part of her mind that touched others. She felt along the trails to the mind of Sesshomaru and lead the trace of his energy down into her hands. They shimmered against the door and it began to open. Nozomi grabbed Kanna's hands and tugged as the door swung partly open. "Run for it!" They ran as fast as they could between the two doors, past the guards and down the tunnel before finally collapsing outside the cave entrance.
Kanna raised a hand to the sky and smiled as the warm sun hit her palm. "I like the feeling of the sun."
Nozomi giggled and gripped Kanna's hand pulling her to her feet as she got to hers. "Let's get to the slayers village."
Kanna shrank back. "Why the slayers?"
"When I was touching Sesshomaru I felt that they are headed there for the wedding of Sango and Miroku. We should meet them all there." Nozomi said tugging Kanna's sleeve.
"Alright." Kanna said and they headed off quickly.
Sango heard screaming coming from the front of the village and grabbed her hiraikotsu as she ran for the entrance. She stared at the wall where three giant dog heads peered over the tops. One had a haughty look while the other two seemed to be laughing.
Miroku caught up to Sango and began to chuckle. "Open the gates!" He cried to the wall guards.
They looked at him like he was crazy and Sango yelled back. "It's our friends!"
The gates opened and they wandered inside. Everyone jumped from the back of the dogs and then the dogs changed into their human forms with the slayers ranged all around them, some ready to fight, others fearfully clutching their children. A demon with flame red hair stood forward and spread her arms wide. "We came for a party!"
I ran forward and clapped Miroku on the back as Sango and Kagome squealed over Kagome's mating and Sango's upcoming wedding. "Treat her right boy! She can kick your ass."
"Don't I know it?" Miroku laughed turning to accept congrats from Mamoru and Inuyasha.
I spotted the four parents by their close distance compared to the others and went to them my children following close behind me. "My name is Dawn." I said nodding regally to them. "Congratulations on the wedding of your children." They smiled at me and seemed to lose the stiffness in their postures. "Let me introduce you to everyone." I said motioning them to follow me. An hour later there were fires lit all over the village with different foods roasting and everyone chattered happily. I cleared an area and got everyone's attention as Kagome and Inuyasha got ready to dance and I to sing. It had taken all of Kagome's convincing to get Inuyasha to stand up and dance with her but he had agreed in the end and Inuyasha's parents stood up with them. While I had been gathering everyone up Kagome had quickly taught the three of them a simple waltz and they had caught on quick. I cleared my throat and they clasped arms in the waltz style as Kagome had showed them and when she nodded to me I began.
"Tale as old as time
True as it can be
Barely even friends
Then somebody bends
Unexpectedly
Just a little change
Small to say the least
Both a little scared
Neither one prepared
Beauty and the Beast
Ever just the same
Ever a surprise
Ever as before
Ever just as sure
As the sun will rise
Tale as old as time
Tune as old as song
Bitter sweet and strange
Finding you can change
Learning you were wrong
Certain as the sun
Rising in the East
Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
Beauty and the Beast
Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
Beauty and the beast."
When the song ended the four dancers stopped amongst a lot of cheering and I waved everyone to quiet. "Love is a tale as old as time, there has always been love. Here with us are many couples and some of us are couples that shouldn't work." Inuyasha and his father looked at their wives and Mamoru squeezed our children to his sides. "But we do because of love. Sango, Miroku, I hope that you two have the love that lasts through time and that you two are very happy." I said bowing to the couple.
"I have a song I want to sing." A voice said from the shadows.
I grinned and leapt to the shadows to pull Nozomi from the dark into my arms. "Everyone this is my daughter Nozomi and Kagura's sister Kanna," I hugged her tightly. "I didn't know when you would be arriving."
"We couldn't miss Sango and Miroku's wedding," she said grinning. And she strode to the center of the clearing and Kanna sat beside her feet. "We're going to show you something we practiced on our way."
Kanna focused on the mirror and images began to rise from it and dance around, Nozomi began to sing in her beautiful voice. The images were princess and princes and dragons all dancing around the edge of the clearing, some big some small but each a beautiful light illusion.
"A dream is a wish your heart makes
when you're fast asleep.
In dreams you will lose your heartache,
whatever you wish for you keep.
Have faith in your dreams and someday, someday,
your rainbow will come smiling through.
No matter how your heart is grieving,
if you keep on believing
the dream that you wish will come true.
Oh, no matter how your heart is grieving,
if you keep on believing
the dream that you wish will come true."
Another round of cheering and celebrating and then Miroku and Sango were led to the village temple. They were wed and we accompanied them to their new hut and then everyone spread out to their own homes drunk and dizzy with the excitement of the day. Inuyasha and Kagome left walking towards the mountain wall and I followed leaving Nozomi and Mamoru to tuck the children in. "Inuyasha? Kagome?" I asked. They turned and waited for me to catch up. "What's up?"
"We just wanted to look inside Midoriko's cave to see if her body was still there." Kagome said. Inuyasha was still sulking at having to make a fool of himself.
"Oh, well…I just wanted to tell you guys that I love you." Inuyasha blushed and backed a step away and Kagome gave me a smile. "Thanks to you Kagome I was able to meet the man of my dreams and get my wonderful children. I've gotten to have these great, though at times terrifying, adventures. You are my brother and my sister and I love you both." I said hugging each of them before heading back to my mate.
Life was wonderful, tomorrow we would all head back home and enjoy our new quiet lives. Quiet? I chuckled, our lives would never be quiet, but they would be happy and full of love. Mamoru wrapped me in his arms and we cuddled in the corner of the room we had been given and looked at our trio as they slept. Sango and Miroku had decided to stay with the villagers and come and visit us often. The Great Dog Demon and his mate were going to live in their old castle with Sesshomaru and Kagura and Kanna. Rin and Kohaku were going to live part time in the castle and part time in the village. They had become much attached and refused to live without each other. It was obvious to many that they would be married when they were older.
This part of our adventures had ended with everyone happy and we knew that no matter what, our bonds would not break. I closed my eyes and curled into Mamoru's lap resting my head on his heart. We would endure and we would thrive. The future should beware; a new breed of demons were coming.
A.N. This is not quite the end, there is an epilogue. However, after the epilogue the story will be finished. Later I might decide to do little one-shot things about the years between this chapter and the epilogue but I don't know. looking at the stats, this story does not seem to be very popular. I love the characters and will treasure them and I loved writing this story and am very grateful for those of you who do read this. But I might just write them for my own pleasure and not post them.
However I am starting a new story called Hearts Entwined. I have decided to make it a large cross-over. It might never be finished but it looks like it will be lots of fun!