"Yes she was." Katsuo-sama stated. "She was a lovely lady who everyone respected and bore me two sons- one Kojishiro who is Ayame's father and the other Renjiro. Because we did not mate, she only saw her sons reach the barest of adulthood. But I am glad for the time I spent with her."
"She seems like a wonderful person. I wish I could have met her." The old man laughed patting the hand that held his.
"I feel like I've just met her again. Do you know why Kagome?" When Kagome shook her head the old man continued.
"You see the one son Midoriko and the monk had was a man named Higurashi. I treated him like my own and he accepted me as best as he could. And when he grew up, he built a shrine in his mother's old village by the roots of the Goshinboku. It was called the Sunset Shrine."