The following New Moon, Souta and his mother and grandfather made their way to the small, shady grave site, which they had all three been clearing up ever since Souta and his mother made their first trek down the path to see it and had been found there, hugging and crying an hour later, by Grandpa.

As it turned out, it had been a lost idea that the stones here were grave stones, for it had been maintained more like a garden. The past few generations assumed it was a small garden with decorative stones half-buried in the ground. Even Souta's mother had assumed they were some kind of inspirational quotes from famous people that their ancestors had admired and decided to use as decorative statues; she and his father had in fact named Kagome before stumbling upon the stones on one of their walks, and had thought it was an interesting coincidence.

Souta, in his essay, later connected his required reading to the Shikon no Tama legend and some of Po Tsune's "unattributable" writings on the legend, which focused more closely on a Hanyou, Miko, Monk, Demon Slayer, and Kitsune. He made the highest grade in his entire class, due to his narrative-style "added speculations" of who and how the people of the legend could have behaved.

After they had cleared away much of the overgrowth, four other stones were also visible in this small garden area; four other people who had made an impression upon the lives of so many others. One held the name of the Higurashi's earliest known ancestor, the very same person to whom Kagome and InuYasha had left the shrine. The other three belonged to Kagome and InuYasha's friends, who must have requested to be buried in the same area: Sango, Miroku, and Shippo- whose grave was very clearly the youngest and was labeled "Shippo Tsune".

Once they had cleaned InuYasha and Kagome's stones, the intricate artwork was visible once more, as were the "wise words" that the villagers had chosen to remember the couple by.

"Life goes on, whether you do or not.

You might as well keep going, too.

You got two legs and a heartbeat-

What's stopping you?"

Hanyou InuYasha

"Wherever you are, whatever comes your way,

Never ignore the ones who need you,

And never stop fighting for the ones you love."

Miko Kagome