Kagome soshite sono Inu Doyatsu izuko Ato Hanyou

Summary: OOC. AU. Whence running from school in the rainiest day ever, ever feel like theirs something watching you? While running down an ally Kagome meets a glare from a pure white dog, hiding from the rain? T for random foul language.

A/N: And wow! Last chapter! Cool! I've actually finished this!! The last eight chapters have been dedicated to the full Japanese version to Therruu no Uta sung by Teshima Aoi (you can listen to this on Youtube, though you didn't hear that from me, now did you?). And the whole story is dedicated to Kara Hitame for pre-reading, and everyone else who has read it in the process. And guess what! By the time you've finished reading this chapter you've read 102 pages of text! Go me, and go you for reading! -.- I'm not joking about the 102 pages, the entire story took that many pages! But what the heck, go read the last chapter of KSSIDIAH!

Chapter 25 – My Hawk

Inuyasha, Kagome and Shippo parted from Miroku and Sango where they first met then, promising to keep in touch.

'Yo, runt,'

'Hm?'

'Where's your home?'

'…'

'Don't you dare tell me you're trying to live in the forest?'

'It's not exactly like I'm welcome anywhere else! After Ma and Pa died, I wasn't allowed anywhere! I was alone!' Shippo yelled as some tears strolled down his face

Kagome picked him

'I'm sure Kagome's mother will let you stay.'

Shippo lit up, and looked up to Kagome, who smiled

'Mama has a soft spot for the cute and homeless, not that you're cute Yasha.' She added in as a side joke.

Inuyasha blinked at her

'Nani?'

'You're still staying with me, just because you haven't got your curse anymore doesn't make you any less more.'

'Really? I'd thought I get kicked.'

'Who'd kick you? Beside's Sota loves you to much.'

'Baka kid is scary. He likes playing video games with me, in the middle of the night!'

Kagome laughed. Then looked up to the sky

'I don't have to be afraid anymore,'

'I know.'

Kagome smiled

'Come on, let's go home.'

'Yeah, it's been awhile since we've been home.'

'And you know what?'

'What?'

'I've got that song stuck in my head again.'

'What? The one that was playing on the radio, when your father died…?'

Kagome smiled, 'and the time I was brought home from hospital.'

Kagome looked forwards as the wind blew past leaves danced along it

Above the clouds where dusk approaches
The hawk that is always flying by itself
Is certainly sad, right?
Within the wind where voices ceased
Its wings that grasp the sky
Cannot rest

'Be safe, little one.' she whispered to the leaves that danced around her, both Inuyasha and Shippo looked at her, but she was looking between the parted trees

What will I compare my heart to?
This heart that is like the hawk
What will I compare my heart to?
The sorrow that seems to dance in the sky

'Look! The barrier!'

'Huh?' Both Inuyasha and Shippo went

'The Shrine's cleansing barrier – we're almost home!'

In the rock's shade where rain drizzles
The flowers that are always blooming so small,
Are certainly in pain, right?
Within the rain where their colours grew hazy,
There isn't a hand that adores
The light-pink petals

Shippo stilled looked downcast

'Hey,' Inuyasha started when he saw Shippo's face. 'Midoriko likes me, so she'll like you,'

'Kagome's mother is named Midoriko?'

Both Kagome and Inuyasha nodded

'Why, what were you expecting?'

What will I compare my heart to?
This heart that is like the flowers
What will I compare my heart to?
The pain beaten upon by the rain

'Um, Emiko… Naraku kept calling Kagome that.'

'Yeah, why was he calling you that, Kagome?'

'The spirit that lives in the Shrine, the one that is always waiting for her fiancé to return from the war, the one that looks up to the Goshinboku and pleads for the Gods to let him live, was called Emiko…'

'That really doesn't explain…'

'She once guarded the jewel. She's my ancestor.'

'Ah, well that does.'

On the wilderness trail where not a soul exists
You who are walking along side me,
Are certainly sad, right?
We are people who go together
Through the prairie where insects drone
But we ceased to talk

Seeing the actual shrine, they both stopped talking and Shippo hopped of Inuyasha's shoulder, into Kagome's arms. As they walked through the cleansing barrier, they felt like they had just jumped into a cold bath.

'Are you sure?'

'Yeah. Kagome's Gramps might wanna start warding you, but if he does just get the hell away from him, I did.'

Kagome laughed

What will I compare my heart to?
This heart of going by myself
What will I compare my heart to?

'Sis! Inu-no-Nii-san!'

'Oh no,'

'Oh yes, Yasha!'

'Mum! They're back!'

'You're back!' Midoriko said surprising both of them by hugging them from behind. Shippo, who wasn't expecting to be crushed in this matter, squeezed his way out of Kagome's arms and fled to the floor

'And who's this?'

'A lone kitsune youkai, his name is Shippo.'

Midoriko picked Shippo up then went

'Kawaii!'

'Told you she'd love him.'

Everyone laughed.

-

Kagome looked up to the sky and smiled sadly past the Goshinboku

'I'm not afraid anymore, Dad.'
'I'm not afraid to live anymore, Dad.'

Then she walked away from the tree, with the wind that tore around her, she smiled, then ran to where she knew Inuyasha would be.

The loneliness of being all by myself.