Silent Hush

Chapter Two Left Behind and Waiting

By Inuyashas Youkai

Sango and Miroku stayed in the village for many years after their passing, raising Shippo. It was until the news that brought Sango expecting. It was the begining of her and Miroku's family,that rose a need to return to her own village,and to rebuild. Miroku of course, had chose to accompany her happily with their new family and upcoming marriage in mind, before they left. Although Shippo couldn't find it within him to follow,for the need to stay and look after his parents resting place,was greater.

It was shortly after the vows were exchanged,and the goodbyes were said,Miroku and Sango were gone to begin their new life. Saddened,Shippo didn't blame them for departing but now the kit felt more alone,and thought more with the feelings of them leaving about his deceased parents. In time the small kin of Kagome's busied himself to occupy his time,while preventing the thought's surrounding the day when his mother left him alone,and to escape from the feelings it brought forth.

With everything he took part in to achieve this his visits to their grave site slowed until ceasing about two years after they faded from this earth. Shippo helped Kaede as she was becoming more fragile while she aged,gathering herbs, training,and if he had gotten the rare urge to visit their graves. Walking in a daze,letting his feet guide him towards the place he hadn't dared step towards, and then with a sigh looked to the deep blue. Returning to glace where his mind had taken him ,with a inkling of where it was,a heaviness growing and tugging at his heartstrings.

' I hope you both found each other Mom and Dad. I love you both. I sure miss you guys. ' Shippo's silent whisper rang through the tress and echoed oddly,in his loneliness.

Suddenly the skies grew darker,while the ominous clouds slowly devoured the clear if answering his question ,a large boom crashed accompanied by a flicker of light across the sky. Jumping slightly,if Shippo wasn't positive of Naraku's passing,one would think that the vile beast had once again returned to threaten what little the kit had left. Watching curiously at the pecular and somewhat luminously creepy vision that unfolded in front of his widened gaze. Unsure of what turn of events would show themselves in result, regardless the kit found himself unable to move ,frozen in shock,and it became fruitless to try.

Shortly following the thunders roar,echoing in his ears,the ground shook slightly, and persisted until the two anomolies became in sync with each other. Shippo's eyes widened like two brown saucers to the possibility that this peculiar event presented. Furthermore confused on how if it was so, how was it that it caused this event to occur,and why. Realization dawned on the small but older child, that his parents never met in the end after their death,but were separated somehow. The fox pondered the idea of Inuyasha might have been decended to the pits of hell, as Kikyo originally intended to drag then abandoning him,and since she was no where to be seen after Naraku was killed ,it was possible. While Kagome's soul had risen to the gates of heaven,made the kit saddened with the thought and hoped what it all meant wasn't true.

A soft feminine whisper dragged him from his current path and when his name was spoken ,he found his chest tighten when her familar voice reached his ears,and soon the tears fell. Shippo didn't need confirmation on whom the sweet, welcoming voice was for he knew,and luckily for him because in that moment couldn't find his voice. A presence wrapped around his form as to embrace him, the memories that the known person that held him brought ,and filled his heart with both happiness and sorrow. The small disterbance in the alcove where Shippo now stood continued as a rainless storm that consisted of large bolts of lightening and the enormous quakes within the ground,and shaking it as if it were going to collasp from underneath them if it continued.

Shaken from his experiance,Shippo was pulled from his lowered gaze to flicker open towards the sound of the commotion near him. It seemed that the sounds and movements that occured in the moments in his rememberance of his mother caused an uproar. The nearby trees in the area were slightly slumped over and upturned by the roots,except one. The Sacred Tree. Not only that but close to where he stood was a patch of ground that was scorched with no life bearing in it and next to it was another spot where it seemed to shadow the other,even in the suns light. Slightly shocked and more confused by this while attempting to help Kaede calm the villagers.

When Shippo was finally alone to his own thoughts with his eyes caught by the moons light. There was something in his mothers voice that invoked fear, confusion,anger, and the concept of being lost with the worry not knowing where she was . Those feelings infuriated him that something was trying to make his mother Kagome feel this way and confirmed that he was wrong in his first theory ,but it hadn't made him feel any better. There was no way in hell that Kagome was in heaven ,if she was able to still be able to come to him and with her soul being in that state. Althought if that was true if Kagome wasn't in heaven or with Inuyasha in hell,where was she?

To further his frustration was it seemed that she was trying to tell him sonething but what was it,and what was with the strange impression left in the was like it was made by two powerfull forces though because the aura left by it and surround it made him shiver. Futhermore there was also the voice and the storm that was brought forth when Shippo heard it. Were they connected ,if so what had created it and why. As everything merged together to something that was recorded to occur within minutes, when it had felt like hours,and to top it off it seemed there was something missing. But what? Shippo knew it was something of importance that somehow seemed to be hidden underneath it all. It was like a unknown mystery, a promise to him to be conveyed when the time presented itself .To this point the kit didn't didn't have a clue, and in defeat Shippo snuggled into the branch of the his dad's tree with sleep quickly snatching him.

Waking up to the suns rays to begin his normal routine with the notion of talking to someone like Sango and Miroku. It was a weird occurance,Shippo thought while his brain wondered back to the events of the day prior,but then again maybe it was nothing. To be sure thought he wanted to talk to someone and soon. Over the next few weeks Kaede grew ill and it had become his duty to help her replacement. The delay that it presented itself pushed back the trip towards the renewed Slayers Village, in which from what he heard from travelers passing through. The rumours that passed on was that the Village Of The Slayers was alive and well. Shippo sent out notifications of the state of Kaede's health,and hoped that his friends would once again return.

Luckily by the time the eldest Miko, Kaede was on her death bed with no chance in recovering, the news was properly recieved and summoned Sango and Miroku. The pair was finally returning with their family to the village, once again. Filled with happiness and guilt that he hadn't seen them in some time or that in his depressed state never made the time to visit them. By the end of the week after Sango and Miroku had returned ,Kaede had passed on . There was a short funeral with everyone in the village. Kaede was buried in her village, next to her her sister ,Kikyo, before her. The kit, after the ceremony went to look for the pair,noticing that they were no where to be seen. After a while of walking and sniffing them out Shippo found them next to his parents grave.

Miroku was comforting his wife ,while sharing a moment of reminicing with each other. The Sakura blossoms fell from the tree by the occasional gusts of wind,and carried them as it went. The scene held a ethereal feel to it,while the sun shone brightly and shaded by the the single tree's cover over the two stone's. It was almost like you were looking at old picture yellowed and tattered with age. Upon hearing Sango's cries to mear soft whimpers, Shippo broke the silence and shook the train of thoughts reeling in his head.

" It's been awhile" Shippo sadly whispered

"I can't believe it's been so long since they .."Sango mumbled to herself

"Died. Indeed , its unbelievable that its been five years since they left us,and it seems it happened yesturday" Miroku sighed in response

" Guys um can I speak with you about something and ask what you think ,about what happened the last time I was here, before you guys came?" Shippo asked shyly

"Sure"

" Of Course"

"I know this might sound weird I might be looking at this all wrong but there was once when I came here after a laspe of time when I hadn't visited this place ,and something happened" Shippo confided

"Interesting , Do tell"Miroku encouraged while running through his mind of the perverse possibilities that could've occured to make his friend act so shy.

"What happened Shippo?" Sango asked softly before smacking her husband for the smirk he was wearing wasn't leading to anything their young friend needed to hear

Shippo ,after taking a deep breath began to proceeded in telling them about that days events in question. In response to what he said without his theory that surrounded his parents,and his friends gasps alerted his attention as his story ended. Silence quickly took over the small group of friends in awe of the possible meaning to these events. The fox broke the silence with a whiper carried to them with the soft breeze,that carried it.

"What do you think?" Shippo asked

Looking at Miroku's surprised,but somber look in his thoughts,the monk soon rose his eyes to lay upon Shippo's. By the end of their discussion, it was found by the feel that the monk gained through his spiritual abilities that a presence lingered here. In his opinion the presence, he felt seemed to be a lonely spirit that was stuck in between the world of the living, heaven and that of hell within the entities lost direction. The monk felt another presence but one that seemed to be old and with that told him its presense wasn't often placed here,actually because it was faint probaly only happened once. In the end it was also decided by the urgency of the message that both seemed to send to Shippo ,that it could be very well that it was their late friends Kagome and Inuyasha.

If this was accurate than that meant that Inuyasha and Kagome never met when they left this world but were separated by unknown intent at this point but they all had ideas but to be sure they hoped that both unearthly visits would occur again. Neither did matter any way but the fact was Inuyasha was now trapped within the flames of hell while Kagome was lost somewhere between the living world and the afterlife ,trapped in the middle. Somehow they hoped the three of them could once again help their deceased friends ,decifer their message ,and to see them once again. Also knowing of both of their known stubbornness, somewhere deep down they knew that they would fight to be reunited to each others side ,and return to them one day.

The three kept talking about it for awhile until the small child whimpering in Sango's arms and arousing the one in Miroku's. Miroku and Sango took their children back to Kaede's old hut to tend to stayed behind for awhile to maul over the current train of thoughts racing through his head.

"Mom and Dad,I hope you do find a way back to each other ,once again."

Shippo sighed once again ,before following his friends path back to the hut,and for now was his home..

TBC...

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