InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Cataclysm ❯ Epilogue ( Epilogue )

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, YuYu Hakusho (As much as I'd love to) or any of the anime/manga characters.

 

Epilogue

 

Kagome was floating in a dark, murky abyss, listening to the nothingness around her.

“So… I'm dead?” she asked no one, her voice echoing around her. “Huh… I'd have thought dying would be more dramatic…”

Suddenly, a sharp pain filled her and light engulfed her.

“What!?”

“Kagome?” a voice asked next to her. She slowly cracked her eyes to find two golden eyes staring down at her. She winced at the sudden headache that erupted from the brilliant lights around her, and tried to crawl back into the darkness.

“Oi, she's awake!”

Warm hands went around her and cold energy slowly filled her, soothing the pain until she relaxed. This time, when she opened her eyes, she found herself staring up at the blue eyes of a female demon.

“Are you feeling better?”

Kagome nodded slightly before sitting up. That was a mistake. She winced at the sharp pains that filled her body, and she looked down to find her whole body bandaged.

“Umm… Why do I look like a mummy?”

“I hadn't arrived yet to properly do it,” a female voice said. Kagome looked slowly to her side to find Kikyo sitting in a wooden chair near her.

“You're alive… The wish was granted!”

She looked at Inuyasha and instantly, the slight happiness was gone.

“Sorry, Inuyasha. I kind of broke your sword…”

“Feh. It's fixed. Besides, that's not what you should be sorry for.”

Kagome looked up to find him glaring at her, and she immediately remembered why she'd needed to make her wish to bring him back.

“I'm sorry…”

“For?”

“Killing you…”

“Oh… That's fine. I was being a psychotic jackass,” he said with a shrug. “I was talking about the fact that you damned yourself because you felt bad in the first place about it.”

“Heh… I don't think I'm sorry for that… Where are we, exactly?” she asked, finally noticing her surroundings.

“We're in Lady Genkai's temple,” Miroku's voice said somewhere nearby.

Suddenly, a tall shadow loomed over her and she frowned at the smirk on Yusuke's face.

“You should be more careful, Kags. You scared the shit out of us, fainting like that. But it's really amazing. The wounds you got were almost gone by the time we got you here.”

Kagome remembered what the jewel had said and smirked.

“I'm not going to die for a long time.”

“Huh?”

“The jewel, because my wish wasn't completely pure, cursed me to live for as long as it takes for me to find someone to love, and then, I'll die when they do. Until then, I'm pretty much unkillable.”

“Damn, that sucks…”

“At least my wish was granted… I sense Koga and Kohaku nearby,” she said, looking at Inuyasha.

“Yeah, that damn wolf showed up when we did in… wherever the hell this place is… Kohaku was with Sango when we showed up.”

“So, Sango's happy, Kohaku's alive, Koga's not dead, and you two are both alive. Naraku's dead, the jewel's destroyed, and I'm an immortal, ageless fire apparition… Well, that sounds like most of a good deal to me.”

She felt something tugging on her mind and let her defenses slightly down.

“So you're aware of your situation, then?”

Yes, she sighed inwardly. You wouldn't happen to be willing to teach me how to use these powers, would you?

“Hn. After what you've done, I don't think I would be the one teaching anything,” Hiei's voice replied.

Suddenly, images from the two times they'd kissed flashed to the connection and Kagome fought the blush that was forming.

“Perhaps we should discuss things later,” Hiei's voice said before she severed the connection.

“So, what do you think you're going to do?” Kikyo asked.

“I don't know,” she said with a shrug. “Naraku's dead and the jewel's gone. My purpose is up.”

“I wouldn't say that,” a male voice said, making Kagome suddenly aware of how clustered the small room was.

“Umm… could everyone give me some air?” she asked, looking at the nine adults currently in the room. She found Shippo staring up at her and gently lifted him into her arms.

And then, it was just Kagome, Koenma, Yusuke and Shippo.

“So, why do you think my purpose isn't done?”

“You're strong, and you've got enough youki to match Hiei,” the brunette teenager said. There are other demons out there like Naraku, if not possibly stronger.”

“So, you want me to be a fighter?” Kagome asked as she closed her eyes in thought.

“Well… not in so many words. More like… a patroller. Should a strong demon happen to surface, then you would aid Yusuke and his team in handling it.”

“Hold it,” Yusuke said. “There's no way you're putting me in charge of her.”

“What's that supposed to mean?” Kagome pouted.

“No offense, cuz', but you're kind of a loose cannon. I can't imagine being a boss to someone more stubborn than me.”

“I'm not that bad!”

“Yeah, you are. It runs in the blood,” he said with a shrug.

“Regardless, I'll give you time to think it over,” Koenma said before turning.

“You're saying that beings worse than Naraku might show up?” she asked, stopping his movement.

“It is most likely.”

“Then I'll do it. If I'm going to be around for who knows how long, I might as well put my… talent to use,” she said as her claws caught the light around her and gleamed.

“Very well, then. You'll be contacted when a job comes up,” he said before disappearing. Kagome looked at her bewildered cousin with a frown.

“What?”

“Just like that? You have no problem going against demons?”

“It doesn't really matter, at this point,” Kagome sighed. “I have two options. I can fight, and distract myself for however long this planet's around, or I can sit around and mope for all eternity. I'm apparently supposed to fall in love with someone, and sitting around waiting will most likely make getting to that point a pain. Besides, I'm a demon, so there's no point in not using my powers.”

“You realize that I'm your boss now, right?”

“I think I can handle it,” she said with a shrug. “Mind leaving me alone for a bit?”

He nodded and was gone from the room. Kagome looked down at her son and smiled.

“How are you, sweetie?”

“I'm fine,” he said with wide, green eyes. “Are you okay?”

“I'm fine,” she responded with a smile. “Sorry for putting you at risk like that. I know that must have been scary.”

“I knew you wouldn't let anything happen,” he said with a massive smile.

Kagome kissed his forehead laid down.

“I love you, Shippo. Momma needs to rest, now.”

“Okay, Momma,” he said before lightly hopping off of her.

Quickly, Kagome was unconscious again…

 

A brilliant, blue sky above made Kagome's eyes squint. She slowly sat up to find herself lying in a beautiful field.

“Hello, Hiei,” she said without turning around. The demon's approaching aura hesitated before he sat down next to her.

“Hello, onna.”

“We're in my mind, aren't we?” she asked, looking around.

“It would appear so, though I didn't do it this time.”

“You didn't do it this time?” she asked with wide eyes.

“No. It appears that one of us pulled me into your mind while we were both sleeping…”

“Well, since we're here until one of us wakes up, want to talk?”

Hiei shrugged before lying back on the grass.

“So… I guess I'll be working with you now.”

“Koenma knows an asset when he sees it.”

“Is it true that there are more powerful demons out there than Naraku?” Kagome asked, hoping she got a negative answer.

“It's most likely. If you're going to be alive until you find love, for whatever reason, you'll be around to witness the rise of powerful demons through the ages.”

“Well then, I think I made the right choice. So… do you want to talk about those kisses?”

“They saved your life,” he sighed.

“It's not like I'm going to hit you for doing it. I know that they saved me. I was more curious as to why.”

“Why what?”

“Why'd you save me? I really doubt you're the kind of person to save someone just because you felt like it.”

“I don't know why I did it. Perhaps it was the fact that you are now a fire apparition, of which very few remain.”

“Is that the reason I don't seem to have any problems with you?”

“Most likely. The apparitions are closer to each other than any other youkai. The only species that can insight trust where it isn't given anywhere else. I believe you're waking up,” he said before the scene vanished…

 

Afterword:

And, after several more days of discussions, everyone made their choices. Miroku and Sango, after a tearful good-bye, returned to the Sengoku Jidai, where they started a family. Koga returned with them, deciding to know how the past got to the time he'd been revived into.

Inuyasha, Kikyo, and Sesshomaru returned to the Makai, where they lived their lives and aided, to the day they all died, in the fight to keep Earth safe from demons. Shippo grew up while his mother didn't, and eventually joined in the fight for humanity.

And, for the next three decades, Kagome suffered a limbo existence of never aging and using her powers to protect the Ningenkai from rogue demons. Finally, after these three decades of working with Yusuke's group, she finally fell in love.

The psychic and she lived for several more decades before, finally, they died saving the Earth together, their children left behind to continue the work of the two.

A/N:

I loved writing this fanfiction, and had a hard time thinking of how I wanted to end it. Unfortunately, I like the ending I came up with, but I don't love it. But I want to know what you, the readers, think.