Well I decided to write by reading some old stories on here. If you think I'm an awful writer just don't read this, if you actually like this please tell me so I continue. I'm trying to stick to characters, but I know it'll be a little weird. ALSO I DON'T own InuYasha

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Chapter 2: The Return

Kagome sighed as she dipped into the hot bath. She finally felt relaxation take over her body. She knew she could stay in her time and seal the well, but there was something pulling her to feudal era. 'What is it Kagome? What's pulling you there?' she sighed at her thoughts 'Shippo. He doesn't need me anymore, but WANTS me there. He's like my son.' She shook her head of the thought. She closed her eyes for a bit and thought about how at one time she imagined herself having a family with a certain half demon. 'That's never going to happen. He has Kikyo now.' Kagome finished bathing and got dressed headed downstairs for dinner.

"So since you guys won will you be staying home?" Her mom brought up the question that was hovering in her own mind.

"I still have duties there, I am the jewel now." Kagome spoke the truth, and didn't mention anything other than straight fact.

"So you and InuYasha... will you guys start to-"

"Grandpa, when I made the wish, his first love came back," Kagome sighed looking at the chicken on her plate daring herself not to cry.

"Kagome a wise woman once told me, if you fall in love with one person and then a second then you never really fell in love with the first, if you still think you're in love with the first, then you never truly loved the second." Kagome heard those words spoken by her grandpa before when she was a kid. He had told her then they were her grandma's words. 'But InuYasha did love me. Right?' as if reading her thought he continued, "by truly loved it means in love, you can love like family and then you can love like a lover."

"How do you know the difference?" It wasn't Kagome to raise the question, but her little brother Sota.

"Well in sight of family love you automatically feel comfortable, for a lover you feel protective like they could hurt you in any moment, and yet you feel as though you should trust them for a lover you have many conflicting emotion for family you just feel love. Although a family love can turn into more it's hard to explain, but it happens." Kagome had never seen her grandpa so wise.

After dinner she helped her mom clean up. She decided in this moment she had never truly sensed the lover emotion no matter how much she had thought of InuYasha as a possible lover. She thought she'd stay home for just a few days, but she was really enjoying the wise words of her grandpa...

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Shippo sat with worry in his eyes as he watched Kaede make healing potions. It was exactly two weeks since Kagome had left.

"Little fox why don't you go visit your ma and pa?" The wise woman asked seeing the troubled look in his blue eyes.

"I just want my ma back," he muttered talking about Kagome.

"I'm sorry young one, but I'll be leaving for a few days, so unless you want to stay around Kikyo and InuYasha the next few days I suggest you scamper off to Sango and Miroku, or the foxes." Kaede knew it hurt Shippo to see the love fest of her younger sister and the half demon.

"I guess so," Shippo sighed slipping out the door. He began the venture over to Sango's village when a whirl wind slid in front of him. "Kouga?"

"Yes I was just coming to check to see if Kagome came back?" The little fox laughed at the wolf prince, he had came to check on the missing girl everyday.

"No and I won't know because Kaede's leaving to another village for a few days, and I'm not staying with-"

"With them two I got it kid, I wouldn't either. May I ask where you're headed?" Kouga wanted to charm Shippo. He would always treat him with respect 'I will treat him as my own as long as Kagome does. If I get her kid to like me, then I'm one step closer to getting the girl I love.'

"Sango and Miroku, I guess, I don't want to go to the foxes I never really fitted in there." Shippo sighed.

"You wouldn't want to come back with me, would you?" Shippo thought it was odd of Kouga, but then he remembered. 'Kouga wants Kagome, so charming me will help. Well he might just be doing a good job.'

"Will they try to-"

"They will never eat the adopted son of their Lady."

"Their Lady?" Shippo didn't know what Kouga was talking about.

"Even if Kagome has never mated me, she is their Lady." Shippo still looked confused, so as they walked Kouga explained. "You'll learn that Wolves only ever truly fall in love ONCE, and when they see that person they know it immediately. That is why I claimed Kagome as mine the first time I kidnapped you guys. It wasn't her power, but her soul that captivated me. Wolves can feel a soul when they merely touch someone, when you find your one TRUE love or soul mate your souls lock, and from then on you can feel everything they do. Since Kagome is no wolf then she has to choose the human way, and doesn't feel my emotions, but I feel hers."

Shippo tried to wrap his head around it all, but it seemed so weird to just know when you touch someone they're it. "So why does Ayame think you two are meant to be?"

"She hasn't found her true soul mate, young wolves like your age have mixed emotions, so when I saved her years ago she thought our souls connected, but they didn't or else I would of knew then. You know foxes are actually very similar in the way they mate, and read souls, that's why you feel as if Kagome is your mom, because you feel connected." Shippo had never heard the wolf prince be so intelligent.

"You're so smart," Shippo acknowledged and Kouga just shook his head and laughed. 'Maybe this kid wasn't so bad.'

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Kagome realized a month had passed, and panicked over Shippo.

"Oh mom I must go, I forgot about Shippo."

"Shippo?" her mom asked.

"Oh he's like my adopted son, you'd love him!" with that she was gone, she felt as if she could out run Kouga. 'I wonder how he is?'

"Shippo!" She yelled hopping in the well.

She got up from the well and immediately went into the village, but when she got to Kaede's hut it was only her there.

"Kaede, where's shippo?" Kagome asked in a high panic.

"You just missed him and Kouga," she laughed a bit answering. 'Kouga? With Shippo?'

"He's been keeping good care of the little fox, as if it was his own." She answered Kagome seeing right through her eyes of confusion.

"How am I-"

"I'm sure Kouga is already running back."

"KAGOME!" Shippo and Kouga yelled in unison busting in the hut. Kouga admired her beauty as Shippo jumped straight into her arms.

"Shippo are you okay? Why'd you go? Did Kouga treat you okay? Shippo?" Kagome's questions flew right out of her mouth making the little fox laugh. 'I got you Kouga' Shippo thought to himself smiling at Kagome.

"Kouga was great! He treated me like his own and the wolves call me brother! BROTHER!" Shippo bounced as he talked. It was actually all true, those two weeks with the wolves were just great. He played with kids his age and was getting trained, Kouga even told him he'd be a great solider one day.

"Thank you Kouga for taking care of him." Kagome finally acknowledged the wolf prince who had been smiling at her this whole time.

"It was no problem the kid sure is strong, and the pups love him." he gave a wolfish grin. 'I gotten attached to the little kit. '

"Can we go back with Kouga?" Shippo asked. 'Okay Kouga we've just got a bit more to do.'

"I-I-"

"It's alright if you don't want-"

"If Shippo is happy then yes," Kagome wanted the little kit in her arm to be happy and he seemed it when talking about the wolf tribe.

"Let's head that way then," Kouga swept her off her feet, but before he could leave she stopped him.

"I need to take care of something quickly," she got out of his arms and handed him Shippo leaving quickly before she lost the aura she'd sensed.

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She followed out into the woods until she saw the silver haired half demon she'd been needing to talk to. She slowly walked to him as he had his eyes shut and head against the tree.

"Kagome?" he asked his eyes snapping open to see her standing right in front of him.

"Hey." she sat down in front of him.

"I missed you." He engulfed her in a hug and it made her smile.

"I missed you too." IF this was just a couple of months ago her heart would be pounding, but it just seemed so familiar, like a family member.

"I love you even if I'm with Kikyo," he thought he might see sadness but she seemed happy for him.

"I love you too InuYasha, you're a part of my family." They smiled and stood up together. "You better tell me when you and Kikyo get married!"

"Married? You-"

"It's the human mating I thought you would know seeing as you're both, but yes married!" They laughed and walked back to the village. They both said I love yous and split.

"I'm ready." Kagome told the fox and wolf who seemed frozen in place. Then both snapped out of it when she talked... 'boys...well demons...'

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