AN: I hope you guys liked this story, 'cause this is the last chapter. Please let me know if you enjoyed it, and check out my other stories. Finally, the conclusion of And They All Die Young!

And They All Die Young

Part 3

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Miroku and InuYasha's laughs echoed across the clearing and into the surrounding forest. They were keeled over, their hands attempting to muffle the sounds by pressing to their mouths, almost in tears. "Oh wow," InuYasha managed out, starting to calm down. "I don't think I've ever laughed that hard."

Miroku giggled a couple of times, running his hands through his hair as he shook his head. "Me either," he told his love, taking a deep breath to calm down more.

InuYasha sighed and rested his head back down on Miroku's chest, the giggling ceasing finally. His head rose and fell with Miroku's chest as he caught his breath, reaching over and lacing his fingers with InuYasha's again.

They had been laying in the tall grasses for hours, speaking about anything and everything. There was still so much to learn about each other, though, and they were willing to spend the rest of their lives doing so.

Miroku stared at the grey sky as he played with InuYasha's fingers gently, staying silent and simply enjoying the moment. A thought was stuck in his mind however, and he finally spoke up. "So... How does this age thing work precisely?" he asked. "I mean, how is it that you're as old as you are?"

There was another sigh before InuYasha cleared his throat. "Well, I'm a half demon."

"Obviously.

"Shut up," InuYasha said half-heartedly, hitting his hand back against Miroku's stomach. "As I was saying, I'm a half demon, which means that I'm human and demon. Obviously," he added playfully before continuing. "You know the aging rate of a human, but a dog demon ages far slower. One demon year is equivalent to 20 human years."

"That is a long time," Miroku admitted softly.

"Yeah, but half-dog demons age at half that pace, so 10 years for one demon year."

Miroku was silent for a moment before swallowing. "Oh," he strained out, his voice cracking.

"What is it?" InuYasha asked, looking up at Miroku with a worried look on his face.

Miroku couldn't help but smile at the look of worry on InuYasha's face. He looked so adorable that way. "Nothing to worry about," he said, leaning down to kiss the top of InuYasha's head. He thought better than to lie to his love though and sighed, laying back again. "It's just... I'm going to age so much slower than you... You could live an excess of 500 more years and I'm going to barely make it t-"

"Please, don't talk about that right now," InuYasha said with a pain in his voice, turning to curl into Miroku's side and burry his head into his shoulder. "I've spent too many nights thinking about that. For tonight let's just think about how happy we are and how happy we're going to be together."

The soft quiver in InuYasha's voice created a lump in his through and he nodded his head. "Okay," he whispered, wrapping his arms around the young man. "I won't."

InuYasha smiled gratefully and nuzzled into Miroku's shoulder, holding his eyes closed and taking a deep breath. Miroku's scent was so strong even when his nose was human, and he knew he'd never be able to live without it.

Miroku kept his eyes open, however, and gazed down at InuYasha. It was strange to see him in his human form, even after all these years together, but it was due to this form that they were together now. He doubted that InuYasha ever would have cracked if he were still an arrogant half-demon. He almost wished that the new moon had been two days ago when he had run into him at Goshinboku.

A sudden thought passed through his mind and his brow furrowed gently. "InuYasha?"

"Hnn?" was the only noise that came from the nearly sleeping man.

"What were you doing in the woods the other night?"

InuYasha's eyes snapped open and he laid there for a moment before clearing his throat. "Oh, um, nothing," he said finally, sitting up and bringing his knees up.

Miroku sat up with him, setting his hand on his shoulder. "InuYasha, what is it?"

He stayed silent for a moment before looking back at the monk. "It was a hut," he admitted. "The outline for a hut, at least. I was going to build it for everyone to live in when we were all still together... but then everyone went away..." he trailed off as he stared out into the distance, seeing the grays of the horizon turning to a soft blue in the rays of the rising sun.

Miroku bit his lip and stared at the back of InuYasha's head before a smile spread across his lips. He shifted onto his knees behind InuYasha and leaned forward, wrapping his arms around the man. "Build it for us."

"What?" InuYasha asked in shock, turning to look over his shoulder at the other man.

"Build the hut for us to live in," Miroku elaborated. "Just me and you."

"A-Are you sure?"

Miroku chuckled at the quiver in his voice and nodded his head. "Of course I'm sure. I love you InuYasha, and I want to live with you," Miroku told him honestly. "And I know that there are people in this world who won't accept us, but we'll be far enough away from everyone that if they don't like it then they can just not come near our home."

InuYasha felt his heart begin to flutter in pure happiness, and he leaned back to press his lips against Miroku's. "I love you," he whispered, taking Miroku's hands in his own.

"I love you too, InuYasha," Miroku whispered, kissing the man once more before resting his chin on his shoulder and looking out towards the horizon.

InuYasha sighed happily and rested his head back on Miroku's shoulder, staring at the horizon as well. The sun rose slowly and cast its rays across the island, warming both of their faces.

Miroku turned to look at InuYasha, his breath hitching at the sight of his love's transformation. InuYasha's hair slowly faded from the raven color it was at that moment to its normal shining silver, his dark eyes bleeding golden as the sun hit them. The half-demon's head turned to stare at the monk quizzically. "What?" he asked grouchily.

A soft smile played at Miroku's lips and he shook his head. "Nothing," he said, resting the side of his head against InuYasha's gently. "Just thinking about how amazing you are."

"Keh," InuYasha responded, just looking forward.

The monk sighed gently and let his eyes slide closed. He told himself that he should've realized that InuYasha would act the same way he always did when he returned back to normal. He just hoped that InuYasha didn't let himself pull too far away.

But then InuYasha put all those thoughts to rest.

He yawned loudly before turning his head, kissing Miroku again gently. "Come on, we should get back to the village before I pass out from tiredness," he said.

Miroku stared at him in astonishment before a loving smile spread across his lips. "Okay."

InuYasha stood up and stretched before turning to help Miroku up. Miroku happily took InuYasha's hand and grabbed his staff, standing up. They kissed one more time before turning to head back to the village, getting onto the path.

They were walking for a while in silence, Miroku holding his staff and InuYasha's hands tucked neatly into his sleeves. There was a silence between the two of them before InuYasha got a mischievous grin. "Miroku?"

"Yes, InuYasha?"

"So I was wondering... which one of us is the girl in all of this?" InuYasha asked.

"Wh-What?" Miroku spluttered, staring wide eyed at InuYasha. "A-Are you..." he trailed off before smiling and tilting his head to the side. "Why you of course! You're the one with the pretty long hair!"

"What?!" InuYasha cried. "You can't be serious! We both know that you're weaker and that I'm always protecting you!"

"True," Miroku said deviously, peering at InuYasha from the corner of his eye. "But you're the one with the adorable puppy ears!" he cried out, reaching up and rubbing one of the furry appendages before darting away.

"Oi! What the hell?!" InuYasha cried as he pulled away, his ear twitching and flicking madly as he pawed at it. He finally realized that Miroku was running away laughing and growled. "Hey! Get back here monk!"

Miroku merely laughed harder and began to run faster, seeing the village through the trees. "Miroku! You know I'm faster than you!" InuYasha cried from behind him, and the monk began to push himself harder. InuYasha growled playfully, purposefully staying just a ways behind and letting the monk run himself out.

They finally stumbled into the village, Miroku coming to a rather ungraceful halt in front of Kaede's hut. He gasped for breath and rested his hands on his knee, not having pushed himself so hard in a long time.

He looked up to see a calm and collected InuYasha towering over him, a triumphant smirk on his face and hands on his hips. "And that's why you should be the girl."

"What?" a stunned voice asked from their side. They both righted themselves and turned to see a confused looking Kagome standing next to a curious looking Kaede.

"Oh, um, nothing. Forgive our raucity arrival," Miroku said with a polite smile, trying to hold down the blush forming on his cheeks.

"'Tis alright child," Kaede said with a soft smile.

"Where were you guys?" Kagome asked.

"Keh. Nowhere," InuYasha said, turning back to Miroku. "I'm going to go rest."

InuYasha walked past Miroku and towards the hut, knocking his shoulder against the monk's as he did. Miroku merely smiled and peered over his shoulder at InuYasha's retreating form. He caught Kagome's raised eyebrow and slightly startled look, but only smiled brighter and shrugged before turning and following his love.

AN: And so it ends.

I hope you guys enjoyed this story, because I did. I just wanted to write something fluffy and all yaoi, and I think I did it pretty well:) Please tell me what you thought and if there's anything I can work on. Also, for any Death Note or just yaoi fans, I'm going to be putting up an L/Light story, so please watch out for that.

Thank you guys!

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