Chapter 62: It Seems Like The Past

5 years had passed since then. Most of them looked about a year older. Inu Heki and her mom lived with him. They had a castle made with silver colored blocks and violet shingles. The colors matched the color of their crescents.

Kagome had been having heart problems for the past few years, it started after they destroyed the Diet. She had already had two heart attacks. Maybe on the verge of another. Her father and mate were constantly worried about her. She would try and stay as fit as possible. She would play with her kids outside the castle, take long walks, and eat rarely anything that didn't have some nutrition in it.

In November of 2001 she became seriously ill. She would stay in bed almost all day and would be tended for by servants. It started to seem that it would clear up in March of the next year. But then at the end of the month she was barely holding on. Everyone was worried, but only Muteki and Reijin knew how bad it was. Nodoka and Inuosukyo had no idea. They thought she would get over it in time, but they were wrong. On the 31st of March she was on her last thread. Inuyasha constantly checked on her. He knew it was only a matter of time.

He had tried the blood bond many times more, to try and reestablish it, but it never worked. He came into her room one day and sat on her bed, comforting her. Inuyasha held her hand and she weakly gripped it.

"I love you Inuyasha. Death will not conquer my love for you." Kagome said.

"Don't leave me, please. Kagome, stay with me. You can hold on. I know you can. Please, hold on." Inuyasha said with tears starting up in his eyes.

'Father, please come to my room. I think it is my time. I want to see you one last time.' She started to cry silently. Her father rushed in.

"Kagome, please. Don't leave us. Please, hold on darling." He said caressing her cheek with his hand. "I can't live with without you. Don't leave, please darling. Hold on. I know you can."

She smiled weakly at him and looked over at Inuyasha. She leaned up and he helped her sit up. She kissed her mate for a few seconds then went limp.

"I love… you Inuya… sha… father. I… love… you… both…." she said and fell back on the bed. Her eyes closed, and ears stopped moving. Her claws retracted to nothing. Inuyasha felt one last heart beat then nothing, her last breath was released. Her hand slipped from his grip. His tears started to flow out.

"Kagome. Kagome! Please! No, Kagome! Why? Why?" Inuyasha cried. He laid on her and cried.

"Why couldn't I save her? I owed her so much and never got to repay her for anything. Why?" Her father cried as tears ran down his face. He stroked her hair slowly.

After a minute they got ready to leave the room. Inuyasha was going to dig a grave for her and build a shrine later. But something stopped him. When he got up he saw a bluish figure standing by the door. He looked that way and gasped.

"Inu?" The figure asked. It was pale so he couldn't make out who it was. "Inuyasha?"

He nodded not knowing who it was. 'I know that voice.'

"Father?" It asked. The figure walked forward and hit a shadow It became more apparent. It was Kagome. "Father?"

"Ka-Kagome?" Inuyasha asked.

She nodded.

"How-how-how…"

"They said I wasn't ready. That I was still needed here. They gave me another chance Inu." She said and smiled. "I can live again."

Her body on the bed disappeared and her figure became more colorful and less transparent.

"Kagome?" Inuyasha asked happily. Her father just stared.

She nodded and ran into her mate's arms. He picked her up, and spun her around while kissing her. She kissed back so hard their lips were bruised at the end. He sat her back down.

"The blood bond is permanent again. I can't die. Its completely back."

"Kagome." Her father whispered. She nodded and walked up to him, he embraced her. He kissed her cheek and forehead. "I could never live here without you darling. You are a part of me. I love you so much."

"I do too dad. They showed me what would happen if I stayed dead. It wasn't pretty." She said with tears streaming down her face.

"Who?" Inuyasha asked.

"The gods. They brought me to Heaven and showed me what would happen in the future…. You Inuyasha would kill yourself from the inside out and turn into a youkai. The Tetsusaiga couldn't help you. They said your soul was destroyed. You died by your own hand. You ripped your own heart out by pure pain. It was gruesome…. Father… you… you couldn't take it. Your youkai, it came out and demanded I came back from the dead. When I didn't you… you killed my mom and everyone else in the castle. Then you came back and saw what happened. You killed yourself and Kouga found us all slaughtered by your hand…. That's all I saw. I wish I would of seen less though. I won't die for a long time. I promise."

"Oh, Kagome, darling. Thank you." Inu Heki said crying. She hugged him and Inuyasha together.

"I can't live my life without you. I want to be with you two. This is the reason I saved you Dad, now you know how I felt when I saw you die like that, back then."

"I owe you so much darling. You've done everything for me, everything. I can't let you die without doing something for you."

She smiled and looked at him.

"You owe me nothing father. Its just good enough for me that I can be here with you." She said.

"No. I owe you, you have saved my life enough. I need to repay you." He argued.

"Then you can repay me by living here with me for the rest of your life." She said.

"I will repay you in time, not just by living with you."

"I never told you Inuyasha, you have some miko powers, because of my mate mark. I transferred them to you when I bit you. The haven't shown up too much. I have sensed them though."

"I what!?"

"You have miko powers. I gave you the potion that Kaede gave me when I turned into a hanyou. You haven't noticed them because you haven't purified yourself. I want to father, but it would kill Inuyasha."

"What?" He asked.

"Giving you a mate mark, it would give you my miko powers. You could be stronger, protect me. That could be your repayment. But I can't."

"Go ahead Kagome. Do it." Inuyasha said. She turned to see him and she was shocked.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

"Do you want it father?"

"I wouldn't mind it."

She nodded and she stood on her toes the moved over to his left shoulder; pushed his haori over. She looked at him questioningly. He nodded. She gripped his shoulders and bit him then licked the wound. He bit back a moan as she did this. She moved his haori back over and smiled up at him. A faint pink aura surrounded them. Inuyasha was confused.

"That was it, now I just need to make sure later you don't purify yourself."

He nodded and hugged her. "Thank you." He whispered. She nuzzled his chest.

She looked back at Inuyasha and motioned him over. Then took a hold of him and her father both. "This is an everlasting story, to be with you is my life. I've got a dream. Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky, A dream come true, I'll live here till I die. I won't say my last goodbye. I know I'm not weak. I have to face it again. There are reasons why I have to remain. But how can words express the feel of sunlight in the morning, In the hills, away from city strife. I'm city born, but I love the country life. For I cannot be part of the cocktail generation: Partners waltz, devoid of all romance. The music plays and everyone must dance. I know I'm not weak. I have to face it again. There are reasons why I have to remain. I've got a dream." She sang. "And its staying here with you until I die. You are my family. I want to stay here with you, I want it no other way. I love you both in different ways but just as much. The Modern Era is my home once again, and I need you both to get through it. I don't have what I used to. I never thought the Shikon no Tama was real, or that some legends were real until my 15th birthday. When I found you Inuyasha, it was like the gods answered my call for someone I could love. I never thought I would mate you. I never thought of being a youkai until you asked me. Then I never thought I would meet my father. I never thought I would be part youkai, my life is a legend. No one would believe me if I fell down the well and told them I was stuck in the Feudal Era for three days unless I had some proof…. I'm glad I met you both. If I didn't I would be messed up. I'm glad Naraku betrayed you and Kikyo Inuyasha. I'm glad Naraku lived and died by your hands. If he didn't I would be in my era, probably married to another man who wasn't right for me, and have his children. Still thinking if I was right in marrying him."

"Wow, I never thought of it that way Kagome."

"I never did until now, I realized that all I really wanted is here. Not on the other side of the well. I used to think that, but I was wrong, way wrong. Inuyasha, if you hadn't asked me that day, to be your mate. I would probably never of gotten the courage to tell you that I loved you. I would be regretting it every second of my life. You would be dead, in hell with Kikyo. And there would be nothing I could do about it."

"Darling, you are the smartest youkai I've ever known. Let alone any person I've ever known."

She smiled at this and blushed some. She let go of them and then walked out to the balcony. There was a beautiful garden out ahead a few dozen feet. The kids were playing there, they then saw their mom come out and ran to the balcony. They jumped easy onto it.

"Are you better mom?" Muteki asked.

"After dieing; seeing what would happen if I didn't coming back and come back. Yes. I'm 110 better. I'm cured, I will not die forever. I cannot, your father's blood bond with me is back. I'm alive for ever."

He smiled and they all hugged her. She looked back at Inuyasha and he was smiling as well as her father.

"Maybe we should have another. We're going to be alive until the world ends."

"We don't need another."

"So. What's wrong with having another for fun?"

"Because with our luck they'd be messed up."

"You mean more messed up than you or more messed up than they are now?"

He growled and she chuckled. She shook her head. "Look, mutt. It doesn't matter if your messed up or not. I love you just the way you are."

He smiled then kissed her quick.

"You can't call me mutt. That's the wolf's line."

"I can call you anything I want."

Her eyes changed color drastically, they turned chocolate and her hair turned raven black. Inuyasha looked at her funny.

"What?"

He grabbed a piece of her hair. She got wide eyed. She looked at her father, he was normal. "What just happened?"

"I don't know…. I like it, what ever it is."

Her skin, all over lightened a bit.

"What's going on?!"

"I don't know."

Just then her crescent was replaced by the Shikon no Tama's symbol. Her dog ears disappeared and were replace by human ears.

"Why do I feel… human?" She gasped her eyes widened and then shone a bright pink and back. Her demonic features returned and she looked normal.

"Ka-Kagome. Y-you turned into Midoriko. Why?"

"I-I don't know. I felt… stronger like a human, miko stronger…" She looked down. "Did I get a new power?" She gasped. Her left hand moved slowly to her waist and she pushed. Her eyes widened.

"What?"

She took Inuyasha's hand and put it where her's was, she pushed it in a bit. "What is that?"

"I hope it's not what I think it is." She said and stood still. She then quickly started to un-tuck her haori. "Inuyasha use your claws and pop it out. Oh god, please don't be it."

He kneeled down and poked his claws into her, she gasped when he did. He got up and something fell out onto the floor. She almost fainted when she saw it. Inuyasha's eyes widened when he picked it up.

"What is that?" Her father asked.

"The Shikon no Tama, but… why?… Inuyasha, give it for a second."

He gave it to her she held it open in her hand and closed her eyes, a faint pink aura surrounded them then Midiriko's figure appeared. "Why Midoriko? Why do I have the Shikon no Tama?"

"Because you are pure and have all four souls in you now. You deserve it. There is a non-selfish wish that you want to be made true. I know it, but you must figure it out." Midoriko said and disappeared.

"Oh god, I have to guard this thing again?! Why me?!" She cried. "What is the wish?" She thought out loud.

Her eyes widened.

"What is the wish?"

"What I thought of was not to let anyone in my family ever die. It is selfish but not selfish at the same time."

'You have figured it out Kagome, use it. Protect them. Please.' She heard Midoriko say. Kagome nodded and closed her eyes as well as her hand around the jewel.

'I wish to never let anyone in my family here ever die.'

The jewel started to glow in her hand and then it exploded, like when she shattered it. Kagome fell back onto the floor and was knocked unconscious. When everything was safe Inuyasha went over to Kagome, he picked her up and she groaned, her eyes opened.

"What happened?"

"You were knocked out by the jewel."

"Wow, I can't believe I got the jewel. Now we will live forever." She said and smiled. "All of us."