When Kagome's eventual full recover had been confirmed she had found her thoughts at last able to turn to other matters. Matters that still concerned her daughter but in a secondary manner.
Like Shinobu.
Shinobu had been a sorely missed presence in her daughter's life for past several months, noticeably so in fact. She had asked Kagome about his absence, sometime before that fateful return to the past, but she had mournfully bemoaned that she hadn't the slight inkling as to why had had departed.
And so she endeavored to find out.
To offer whatever help she could to the male her daughter was so enamored with.
Who, in return, was so enamored with her daughter.
Even if he had yet to speak the words aloud.