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Chapter Fifteen:

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Kagome leaned back against the bench and stared out at the city. She sat beneath the great tree, taking comfort in the shade that it cast.

She had been thinking, recently. Perhaps the youkai race hadn't been destroyed. What if they were just hiding? She had certainly never bothered searching.

She had never had a reason, before.

Back then, she had thought everything would continue as it was. It never occurred to her that it would just end.

Now, as she sat beneath the great tree which started it all, Kagome Higurashi closed her eyes.

And wondered what she'd find.