Chapter 21: The Western Lands

Sesshoumaru had taken them all the way to the western lands by sun set.

"Ok, this is the boundary between the Eastern and Western Lands. On the right is yours, Kouga's is the left where the ground is rock. From here to the river is your land. If you follow the river North it splits in two. On the left is yours, the right is mine. Same when it splits again. You have the Western Mountains. When you came to a forest there will be a clearing between the sides. The left is yours, the right is mine. The Northern boundary is at the edge of the Western Mountains. The Southern boundary is at the lake south of here. Got it?"

Inuyasha nodded. Kagome looked at him and wondered 'Did he get all that? I better try and remember some of it for him.'

"A castle will be built for you. It shall be done in a month ½. The new moon of 2 months shall signal it is done. Got it?"

"Sure, just why a castle though?"

"Don't you want to live on your lands?"

"Yea, but-"

"Then you shall have a castle. Are you fine with it by the mountains?"

"I was thinking more by the woods."

"It shall be done."

Inuyasha lightly growled. Kagome tugged on his haori, "Don't fight him mate. He's being nice doing this for us. Please be nice to him, for once?" She whispered to him.

"Fine, thank you Sesshoumaru. I look forward to it." Inuyasha told him.

They arrived back at Kaede's late that night. They crept up into a tree, because they didn't want to wake the others.

"Think of it. We're going to be in a castle. A castle! I would never of thought of it. Even if I thought of my future with you." Kagome told Inuyasha

"I didn't even think my future was going to be with you. I thought I was going to be alone for the rest of my life, because hanyous rarely ever get mates." He told her.

"Well, you have one now. And that's what counts…But anyway, you're not a hanyou. You're a youkai." Kagome told him; he growled. "I know what you mean. But still, is Sesshoumaru can get a mate, you can."

"He doesn't have a mate."

"No… But he has the hots for Rin. Can't you tell?"

"He does? He hates humans!"

"Well not this one… You're hopeless."

"What?"

"Never mind."

"Feh." 'I don't get women.'

"Thank god Naraku is gone!" Miroku said. They were sitting in Kaede's hut talking.

"Yea, but I kind of miss traveling for the shards." Sango said.

"I do too." Inuyasha said.

"I'm going to miss my Wind Tunnel. Even if it was going to swallow me whole one day."

"I don't blame you Kagome told him. "Do you know Sesshoumaru gave us a castle?"

"No! He did not!" Sango yelled.

"Yea, and the Eastern half of the Western Lands. It'll be by the forests. It'll be wonderful!" Kagome said daydreaming.

"Can we come visit?" Shippo asked.

"Well of course. But once I have my pup, your going to live with us. All of you."

"Really?" They all replied.

"Yep. Inuyasha agreed to it."

"That'll give us three months to settle into our castle before the pup comes."

"Three?… So that means the castle will be done in two?!" Sango asked.

"Yea, Sesshoumaru said by the New Moon of two months it'll be done." Kagome told her.

"Wow, that's quick!" Miroku said.

"Yea, even in my time it takes builders about four months to build a regular house. But when you have a lot of people working I guess It could be done in two." Kagome told them.

"What are houses like in your era?" Sango asked.

"Big, bigger than a large huts. Even small houses are big. Most are two levels or more. They have a lot of rooms too. Mine was two levels, it had a living room, kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms, everything normal." Kagome told her.

"What was your room like Kagome?" Shippo asked her.

"Well, it was pink. I had a bed with purple coverings and pink sheets. I also had a desk, closet, carpeted floor-"

"What's carpet?" Shippo asked.

"It's like a rug bolted down to the floor. It's really soft. I wish you could of seen my time… Oh wait! I brought pictures back!" She said rummaging through her bag. "Here. This is my house. This one's me in front of Goshinboku with my brother and mom. Here's me with my friends." Kagome started to cry. Thinking of her past always did that.

"Kagome don't cry!" Shippo said hugging her neck.

"I can't… help it…. I miss my brother,… my mom, even my grandpa!"

Shippo jumped off her and over to Sango.

Inuyasha hugged her tightly and nuzzled her hair.

"You'll see them again in 500 years. It'll go by quick if you don't think about it. Just think about now." He told her, trying to comfort her.

She nodded and stopped crying.

"Trust me. I'm already 450 years old."

"Well, really only 400 because you were pinned to Goshinboku."

"Whatever. By the time you see them you'll only be 23 in human terms and I 27."

"So literally in demon years how old am I?"

"You should be about 375. Because if you're almost double of Shippo and he's 200 in demon terms, but 8 in human."

"Ok. So that means…" She tried to do the math in her head "You're 18 in human terms, right?"

"Yea." Inuyasha said amazed.

"So for every 25 human years equals a demon year, right."

"Something like that. But how did you do that?"

"Now math isn't such a bad thing. Is it?"

"I guess not."

"Well, I'll be the architect for our castle now."

"A what?"

"A person who figures out how big things are, like houses and figures out how much of everything they need."

"Ok I get it. Then that's fine by me."

"At least I get to be one thing, besides his mate." Kagome whispered to Sango. Sango snickered.

"What did you say bitch?"

"I told you not to call me that, and it's none of your business."

"Feh."

"Now what will we do. We've got two months, no Naraku, we're youkais, and I'm pregnant. This is going to be a rough two months." Kagome told Inuyasha the next day.

"We'll get used to it."