I found this and decided to post it. This is how SSoD was originally supposed to end. But, of course, reviewers were able to sway my way of thinking and it did not end this way. This was also before I planned on writing InuTaisho. I own nothing.

Original Epilogue

6 Years Later

Kagome emerged from the temple and stepped into the morning light. The sounds of children playing Otedama could be heard through the quiet village. Kagome turned her attention towards the game area. She could see her five year old son, Inutaisho, watching the game from the outfield. Kagome frowned briefly, then a small smile lite her face. 'So much like his Father.'

Kagome continued down the temple stairs and resumed her miko duties. The reminder of InuTaisho's Father forced Kagome to work automatically while she thought back to six years ago. After InuYasha had saved her and Izayio from the spell, they had made love. Kagome blushed as she remembered it. The next morning, she discovered that InuYasha had left to fight Kiba. By the time she reached the Western Wolf Tribe, Kiba and InuYasha were dead. Sesshomaru soon came upon the scene. Surprisingly, he told Kagome that she and Izayio could come live with him. She had refused and returned to the village after removing InuYasha's enchanted beads and telling his brother to give him a proper burial. She collected Izayio and left the village she had called home.

Much like Kikyo did when she had come back from the dead, she wandered around from village to village. When she discovered she was pregnant again, she had stayed in this village. This was slowly becoming her new home after five and a half long years. She fingered the enchanted beads around her throught. InuYasha never left her mind. Especially when she looked at InuTaisho. InuTaisho looked just like InuYasha, but on his human nights, for both of her children it was the night of the new moon, he looked like herself.

Izayio tugged on her sleeve and brought Kagome's attention to her. "Mother, do these herbs do anything?" The young hanyou held up some grasses as she asked. Kagome nodded.

"They are for fever when boiled into a tea." Kagome replied. Izayio smiled and turned towards their small hut. Kagome slowly followed. Though Izayio was a hanyou, she had yet to show any demonic powers and only miko powers. Inutaisho, on the other hand, had begun to use Sankon Tessō. Kagome reminded him repeatedly to only use his demonic powers to help people. Izayio also said this a few times to him. InuTaisho did have a slight temper and Kagome had to scold him a few times for swearing, but he also had InuYasha's soft side to him. He looked at Kagome the way InuYasha looked when he spoke of his mother Izayio-sama.

Kagome never had understood why she had gotten pregnant that last time though. She had just come back from the dead and it had only been a few days since she had given birth. Kagome sometimes wondered if InuYasha's yokai side knew he would soon die and the yokai energy in him had allowed her to become impregnated. Whatever the reason, Kagome was thankful she had Izayio and InuTaisho with her. They were two pieces of InuYasha she would always have with her.

Kagome lifted her face towards the breeze that blew through the area. 'I wonder if this is how Izayio-sama felt after losing InuTaisho-sama?' The peacefulness that flooded her was shattered by the forceful coughing that shook her body. A few village women inquired to her health, but she calmed their fears. Izayio looked back at her mother.

"Mother?" she asked. Kagome smiled and waved for her daughter to continue back to the hut. Recently she had fallen rather ill. She tried to pass it off as a mere cold, but deep down she knew it was more than that. She looked towards her shadow. It was midmorning and her shadow was faint. She was dying. Kagome put on a brave face and followed after Izayio.

Kagome paused when she heard the Otedama game stop. She turned and saw the children walking away. Inutaisho stood alone, holding the small bean bag. Kagome's eyes welled with tears as she walked towards her son. Upon hearing his mother's footsteps, InuTaisho turned and ran towards his mother. Kagome bent to her knees and opened her arms for him. The young boy hugged his mother close.

"Mother, what's a halfbreed?" Inutaisho asked her in his small, childish voice. Kagome held him to her chest as she began to cry. This was the first time InuTaisho had seen her tears.

150 Years Later (Around 1508)

InuTaisho grunted as arrows pinned him to the tree. He struggled to loosen himself as the shooter began to leave. Inutaisho's struggles slowed as he heard his Robe of the Fire Rat begin to tear. Izayio would be mad enough she had to stitch it as it was, no need to make matters worse.

"I'll send Izayio-chan to release you." The shooter called over her shoulder as she walked back to the village.

"Why do you never make the final shot?" InuTaisho called after her. The woman stopped and turned to face him. Her slender face was framed by waist length, sleek black hair. She wore traditional miko robes.

"Do not come after the Shikon no Tetsu again. You're a waste of arrows." The miko turned and continued on her way.

"Feh, the only way I'll stop coming after the jewel, Momoko, is if you just hand it over to me." Inutaisho called after her.

Momoko stopped at the edge of the forest and slowly turned. "InuTaisho, why do wish to become a full yokai?"

InuTaisho barked a laugh. "Isn't it obvious, Momoko? Hanyous are weak."

Momoko returned to the clearing. "Your sister is a hanyou; a rather strong hanyou at that. You were born of a strong inu-hanyou and strong miko. You are a noble mix of both."

"The Old Man never got his wish of being a full yokai. I intend to fulfill my wish." InuTaisho retorted.

Momoko smiled softly. "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Now, I must really go attend to Ryuu." Momoko turned to leave, but was once again stopped by InuTaisho's voice.

"Why do you take pity on that weak thief?" he asked.

Momoko looked over her shoulder at him. "I take pity on him because he is not long for this world." The miko walked out of the clearing.

It was not long until he could sense his sister getting near. Izayio walked out of the forest from where Momoko had just left and raced to her brother.

"Little Brother, why do you always get yourself in these messes?" Izayio asked as she removed the sacred arrows. Inutaisho landed softly on the ground.

"Feh." he huffed. Izayio watched as her brother followed Momoko's scent back to the village. Izayio stood next to the Sacred Tree as she looked towards the heavens.

"Mother. Father. Please watch after InuTaisho. I can sense danger over the horizon." Her dark hair danced in the wind as the sun set and darkness fell over the land.

~Azarath101