Well here we are, the final chapter! I hope you enjoyed reading this as I have enjoyed writing it! Thank you all for the feedback. I'm sorry to say that I cannot promise when I will be updating knight¸ because the chapter I'm working on is giving me hell and I have a programming project to do that I've been putting off.

I will try for something, but I cant promise. But anyways, enjoy!

Prompt: nine

Words: 540

Lunch is Enlightening

o0o

Looking over at her companions, Kagome smiled tiredly at them. They all looked at her weirdly and in shock, she had been gone for over two days, ever since that afternoon that they had left her to fight off the group of boar demons that had followed them, they hadn't seen hide or hair of her.

And of course, Inuyasha had been of no help to them, ranting and raving the entire time about her not staying put, instead of deciding to use his nose to help the humans with inferior senses locate the young miko that meant a lot to them all.

"Kagome! Where have you been we were so worried." Sango cried, moving to hug the smaller woman. Said woman flushed in embarrassment.

"I'm sorry guys, but something had come up and it had required my immediate attention. I apologize for worrying you so; I should have left a note or something. She really was sorry for making them worry, but at the time it hadn't mattered to her. Now, however, seeing their stress drawn faces, the guilt compounded her.

"What had you been doing?" Miroku asked, for once leaving his perverted thoughts under the blankets of his brain, if only he knew that now would have been the only justifiable time for him to leer at her. Oh the irony.

"That doesn't matter, what matters is that I'm here and I have something important to tell you all" she said, the all raised brows at her, even the hanyou who was not so discretely sniffing the air around her (vacuuming was more like it).

"What's wrong Kagome?" Sango seemed puzzled at her friend's behaviour.

"Well you see, I've decided to request that Lord Sesshoumaru join us in our quest, we would have one extra member, one strong in battle and strategy and it would make the shard hunt go by quicker"
she said hastily, totally ignoring the looks of shock she received and the cherry red face of the hanyou.

"Kagome?" Miroku asked in an odd tone.

No sooner did Lord Sesshoumaru himself step from the tree line in all his pristine glory. "What the miko says is the truth and I have accepted her offer" he replied magnanimously.

They heard a deep gasp followed by a rattling breath. All looked towards the still red hanyou that was glaring daggers at them.

"Inuyasha?" Kagome ventured "Are you ok?" he inquiry was answered with a dull thud as the hanyou collapsed onto the firm ground of the forest. Running to his aid, the young miko tried to wake her fallen comrade.

"Why won't he budge?" she looked back at the stoic demon lord.

"He knows of our activities and his heart stopped, he is dead" he replied nonchalantly, looking for all the world, alright with the knowledge that his only sibling just died because he found out that his stoic half-brother just got some. A lot of some.

"Why are you so calm? He's dead we killed him!"

"No we did not," he looked at her, didn't she know? It was common knowledge after all. Seeing that's she obviously was ignorant to this normal occurrence, he decided to fill her in. "Didn't you know, hanyou have nine lives"

~owari~

Didn't know that did you?

Thank you thank you thank you thank you all!!!!!!!!

I have a some more stuff in the works so look out for those and the update for Knight will hopefully come soon

Much love!

-sora