Chapter 62: It Seems Like The Past 2

5 years had passed since then. Most of them looked about a year older. Inu Heki and her mom lived with them. 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. Inuyasha was thinking about burning her body.

Later that night, they had an alter for her to lay on in the garden. She was dressed in a beautiful, flowing, violet dress. Everyone gathered around her body as they prepared to burn it. Inuyasha slipped a dark pink rose carefully into her hands. He was still crying. Everyone was. He took a box of matches out of his haori and was about to light a match when something stopped him.

He stood back up; dropped the match and box, then backed away some, thinking he saw something.

"What's wrong?" Inu Reijin asked quietly.

Inuyasha's eyes narrowed. There was a bluish figure in the distance walking in the garden.

"What is that?" Inuyasha asked.

"What's what?" Inu Heki said.

"In the garden." Inuyasha said, walking towards it. The figure was dancing in the garden and giggling. Then it stopped when Inuyasha came up to it. The figure gasped.

"Inu-yasha?" It asked, it had a very familiar feminine voice.

His eyes squinted some and he nodded. He was trying to adjust his eyes some to see the figure clearer, it was a pale blue color, and transparent. Inu Heki came up behind him. The figure walked towards them.

"Father?" It muttered.

"Who… are you?" Inuyasha asked.

Its shoulders dropped. "You don't recognize your own mate?" It asked sadly.

"Ka-Kagome?" He whispered.

She nodded.

"Bu-but how?"

She smiled and walked right up to him. Then kissed his cheek, he didn't feel it though. She giggled a little. She started to fade. "No! Kagome!"

She was gone. He started to cry again, then they turned to go back. Kagome was getting up off the platform. They all gasped. Inuyasha ran up to her. She opened her eyes slowly to see him. They were ice blue, but slowly turning green. She smiled.

"Ka-Ka-go-me?" He asked.

She nodded, smiling. He walked closer and she laid a hand on his chest.

"You're alive." He whispered. "How?"

"I wasn't ready. The blood bond is permanent again. The gods brought me to Heaven and showed me what would happen if I stayed dead. It wasn't pretty, for anyone."

Her father got wide eyed and walked over.

"Father." She said smiling and walked up to him. He just stared in disbelief. She laid her head on his chest and sighed, he hugged her and cried. "I couldn't bear what you two would do if I stayed dead." He let go of her and she turned to her mate. "Inuyasha, you 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…" She said turning back to him. "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."

Inuyasha walked back up to her and hugged her.

"I can't live without you Kagome. I can see that happening. I'm never letting anything happen to you again."

She brought her father into the hug.

"I can't live my life without you either. 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."

"Inuyasha, did you ever think about using the Tenseiga?"

"No, I wasn't right in the head this afternoon. I couldn't bear it."

She smiled up at him and let them go, she looked at the rose in her hand and sniffed it.

"It doesn't feel right to be a ghost, you can feel, smell, or touch. I was here all day. I watched you all from the garden, I never left. You must of just saw me clearer now because it was dark."

"Was that you I heard mommy?" Inuosukyo asked. She turned to see him. "I heard someone playing in the garden and went to see who, but no one was there."

She smiled.

"Yes, I saw you run out but you couldn't see me because of how much light there was. I watched you, I tried to get your attention but you got scarred and ran inside."

"I'm sorry mommy, I didn't know it was you."

"Its ok."

"Then that must have been you near sun set. I went outside on father's order's to find a good spot to put your shrine. I saw the swing moving, but there was no wind." Muteki said. She nodded, smiling still. Then turned to Inuyasha.

"You were going to build me a shrine?" She asked.

He nodded. She brought her claws out and he backed up, then she turned around. "I guess we don't need this anymore." She said and whipped the alter in two. It fell apart. Someone was walking towards them from in the woods. When they got closer they saw it was Sesshoumaru and Rin. They stared in disbelief as well.

"Kagome?" Rin whispered. She had long black hair that touched her waist, amber eyes, and a purple stripe on each cheek. She was wearing a electric blue kimono. Kagome nodded and Rin ran up to her and hugged her. "How?"

"I was taken to heaven and shown what would happen if I stayed dead. The gods agreed that it would be best for me to stay. It was gruesome what I saw. I wouldn't even wish what I saw on Naraku. Even that's hard to believe."

"What did you see?" Sesshoumaru asked.

"Inuyasha ripped his heart out after becoming a full blown youkai…. My father, he-he killed everyone in the castle. Then killed himself."

"I'm sorry." Sesshoumaru said. Rin let go of Kagome. Kagome no longer wore her necklace to keep them humans. It was locked up safe. She turned back to Inuyasha and Inu Heki.

"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."

"Kagome, if you hadn't lived, I may not be alive. Then I wouldn't be mated to the man of my dreams and have a child on the way too."

"You're with a pup."

"Yea, I was going to tell you soon."

"If you need any help, just tell me what. I've had four, I know every part of it."

"You know what? I think Kagome is the person who brought us all together." Inuyasha said.

"Huh?"

"Kagome, I would still be bound to Goshinboku if you hadn't come through the well. Rin would be what she said. Sesshoumaru would probably be the way he used to. Kouga might still have Ayame. Your father might not of met your mother, and he definitely would not be alive. We all might not be alive. And I defiantly would not have a mate or four kids that are all perfect. And don't forget, Sango would be working for Naraku, along with Kohaku. Miroku would still be dead, but would have been fearing his wind tunnel. He wouldn't be married to her, or have so many countless kids. Naraku would probably be alive still too… See what would happen without that one day, what you thought was bad. Falling into the well has been great, now hasn't it?"

She nodded and he came up and kissed her. "We all need you here, not just me and your father."

"Yes. I'm going to live till the world's end with you."

Her hair then turned it's old raven black color and they all gasped.

"What?" Kagome asked.

"You-your hair. Kagome."

Her eyes widened and she grabbed a chunk of it.

"I'm fine with it."

She looked at her mate and her eyes turned chocolate. Now his eyes widened.

"Are you turning human?"

"I don't know." Her hair grew longer.

"What's happening to you?"

Her father walked over and he gasped when he saw her. She looked at him, then her dog ears were replaced with human ones, her claws disappeared and so did her fangs.

"You're human." He whispered.

She looked at Inuyasha and her crescent turned into the Shikon no Tama's symbol. He stepped back

"You're Midoriko." He said. She looked at her body and her skin tone lightened some. She turned to see Rin and the rest. Their eyes widened.

"Why?… Midoriko? Why, she's the last-" Her eyes turned a bright pink and then she collapsed on the ground. A pink light shone around her as they rushed up to her. She sat up with Inuyasha's help. "I-I felt stronger as a human…. Miko stronger…. Did I get… Midoriko's power?"

She stood up with her hand on her left side. Then when she leaned over she gasped.

"What? What happened?" Inuyasha asked.

"Oh, gods. What the hell?" Kagome said.

"What is it?" Inu Heki asked.

She stepped back and went over to a tree. She stuck her hand out and yelled as she was thrown back. "What the hell happened Kagome?" Inuyasha said.

"Do you remember that Inuyasha? Mistress Centipede?"

His eyes widened. "How?"

"How what you two?" Sesshoumaru asked.

She pulled her dress down to see her side, while laying down. She was wearing a lavender bra. She took her claws out and pierced her side while hissing. She brought her finger out and a pink light shone from the wound she made.

"Why me Midoriko?! Why me?!"

"Why you what?" Rin asked lovingly.

"Why do I get stuck with it again?! Why the hell do I have to guard it again? Does it have to be me twice in my life? Can't it be some other priestess for once?"

"What the hell are you talking about bitch?" Sesshoumaru asked.

She got annoyed and stood up, not covering herself up. She leaned a bit to the left and looked down as something fell out of her. She put her dress back on and picked it up. She held it in her hand and closed her eyes.

Midoriko's figure appeared next to her as she opened her eyes.

"Why me Midoriko? Why me again?" Kagome asked.

"Because you have all four souls in you now. You deserve it."

"Deserve it?! I want to get the hell rid of it! Don't you remember all the trouble this thing's caused?"

"Yes, but there is a non-selfish wish you want. Make it real." She said before disappearing. Kagome growled.

"Why me?" She sobbed.

"What is the wish?" Inuyasha asked.

"I don't know! How do I deserve this damn thing again?! I want to throw it away!"

'Don't Kagome. Don't you remember how much trouble was caused with the shards, this would be worse than Naraku.' Midoriko's voice said.

"Gods, save me from this. Please."

"There is no saving you Kagome. I'm sorry." Inuyasha said.

"Well thanks for the support. You want it? You already got your wish."

"No."

'Kagome, your wish was the same as his. You want something. You all do now.' Midoriko's voice said again.

"Can't you just tell me? This isn't easy!"

She sighed and thought.

"That's selfish and non-selfish." She said after a minute.

"What is?" Inuyasha asked.

"For us to never die."

'Kagome, make the wish.'

"Fine, if you say so."

She closed her hand around it. 'I wish no one in my family could or would ever die.'

There was a flash of light from the jewel. It surrounded Kagome and it was brighter than the sun. Kagome was laying on the ground when the light subsided. Inuyasha went over to her and she groaned as she sat up.

"What happened? I better not of died again."

"No, you didn't die Kagome." Inuyasha said smirking. "You made us live forever."

She gasped with happiness and hugged him. He picked her up and sat her back down.

"Now we'll all live forever. There are no more castles in the air. Not at all."