"No ningen will see us." the braided girl bristled.

"Oh, really, Niall? Then why does your lookout reek of mikoki?" the man retorted. "She's still around, too, this youkai-healing miko." Niall paled. He continued. "I'd say she's right…around…there." He pointed to where Kagome was concealed- or so she'd though- by the shadows. "Come on out, miko." he ordered.

Kagome stepped into the light.

His eyes widened.

"Kagome…" InuYasha whispered. "You're alive?"

"InuYasha?" Kagome was just as shocked- if not more so- as him. "What are you doing here? And what do you mean, 'alive'?"

"Uh, I meant, you're here, in this time." InuYasha amended hastily. Something wasn't right. He was hiding something, but Kagome let it slide.

A mistake, as it turns out.

"What's going on?" she asked.

"Hold on." InuYasha told her. "Hawks, back on you own turf. Pack, let 'em be. They're just trying to get a rise outta you, anyway." he barked at the youkai teens. The gangs began to disperse. "Niall." The girl paused at the inu hanyou's voice. "Could you find Goku for me? There's someone I think he should meet."

The girl nodded, disappearing into the dark. InuYasha and Kagome began to walk.

"You still live at the shrine, right?" InuYasha asked her.

Kagome laughed. "InuYasha, I just saw you two days ago, and you ask where I live?" she said. "What's going on here?"

He was silent for a moment. "You only saw me two days ago…" he repeated. "The last time I saw you was over five hundred years ago." Kagome gasped. He continued. "I'm married now…to Kikyo. You have to understand, I waited for you, but…five hundred years is a long time, even for a hanyou." He fell silent.

"What about everyone else?" Kagome asked, after a pause.

InuYasha relaxed, back on safe ground. "Sango and Miroku got married. They've got great-great-great-grandkids around here somewhere, Angie and Miho. They know the legends, but they don't know they're true."

"Kind of like me with my Gramp's stories." Kagome commented. "Let's just hope they don't go falling down any magical wells, because they're in for a rude awakening."

InuYasha smirked, and continued. "Shippo runs a club, and the runt is dating Sesshomaru's ward, Rin. The great Ice Cube-sama blood bonded her, and turned her into a hanyou, which is still alive. And you'll never guess who the bastard married." Without giving her a chance to guess, he told her, warming to his subject. "Kagura! They have a daughter, Kamiya, she looks just like her mother. Has Sessho's eyes though…and his icy, stick-up his-ass personality."

A boy, perhaps seventeen, approached. "You wanted me, Dad?" he inquired.

Kagome looked at him, wide eyed. "InuYasha, he looks just like you. Even the eyes."

The boy rolled his oddly purple eyes. "Of course I look like him. What kind of mother are yo-" Those eyes narrowed. "You're not my mom. Yousure look like her, but you're not. Dad, what's going on?"

InuYasha looked a weird combination on proud and embarrassed. "Kagome, this is my son, Goku. Goku, this is Kagome Higurashi. She's a-"

Goku cut him off. "-a miko, I know. I've heard the stories enough times." He ran his eyes over her. "So, this is her, huh?" He snickered. "Wait 'till that flea-bit wolf finds out I met her first."

InuYasha looked disapproving. "I don't want you making trouble, gaki. Because then, she'll go to Koga, and he'll kick my ass."

"Who?" Kagome asked curiously.

"Koga and Ayame's daughter, Rilly." InuYasha told her.