Hey everyone!! So here it is finally the last chapter of this story. I'm sorry it took me so long to update I've been having creative troubles. But now it's here at it is done!! I can't believe it. I'm going to work on my other stories now because you know they need my time and attention just as much as the rest. If I even have some reviews to. But anyways back to the action I just want to say thanks to everyone for putting up with me your reviews mean more to me than anything else in the world. So please keep on reviewing and tell other people about my stories as well!!!

Without future adu….

A reason to live

Final chapter- A final Good bye

The wails of sadness and despair echoed through out the funeral home. The air thick with the salty scent of tears as close friends and family said a final teary good bye to the pair. Each was being laid to rest in solid oak coffins and would lay forever side by side like they were found. Snow white lilies and deep red roses adorned the coffins, draping off like blankets. Everyone in the home kept on repeating the same things over and over. "they were too young to go" "there was so much left for them to do" "It isn't fair to take them so early." Indeed all of it was true but that did little to ease the pain and nothing for the feeling of injustice each broken heart felt. Each person was able to gain some comfort from the fact that at least they would be laid together. A plaque hung over the coffins and on it tenderly chosen words had been carved.

Nobody can control,

When our lives are taken,

May you rest forever,

Your memories never forsaken.

Rest in peace.

The coffin lowering had been a solemn affair, the sound of the priest as he spoke of life and death, good and bad, the certain and the uncertain seemed to drone on forever, yet just before it began it seemed it was over. The sun shone brightly over head, as if it too was trying to cheer up the ones who were mourning. And amid tears of anger and sorrow the two were finally laid to rest. Slowly one by one the group went there separate ways, after finally saying their goodbyes, eventually one two people remained.

"It wasn't supposed to be this way. They weren't supposed to die. We carry their deaths on our conscious now."

"It wasn't our fault, we didn't know."

A soft breeze swept through the graveyard, gently moving her long black hair off her shoulders.

He stood beside her, his tall lean figure casting a shadow as the sun set behind them.

Finally after a few minutes of silence she kneeled and laid a single rose on each grave. A single tear running down her porcelain cheek as she said goodbye to the family she lost. Finally she tried to stand up, but couldn't find the strength to do it. Pain from the past 2 weeks finally let loose in a torrent of tears as she finally cried over the graves of her lost loved ones. "It's not fair; I didn't want any of this to happen! It's not fair!"

"Kagome, nothing in life is fair, but everything happens for a reason. It wasn't fair for you to be treated the way you were. Yet, because of it you were brought into my life and have given me more than I could ever deserve. We should never have even had to fight, but we did and because of it Naraku is dead. Nothing in life is fair, but then again if it were that mean that we too would be dead." Sesshomaru replied softly.

Kneeling beside her he gently wrapped a comforting arm around her shoulders. And after a few minutes picked her up in his arms, holding her tenderly as she sobbed into his chest. While he began walking towards the setting sun and away from the graves.

As they left she managed to stop crying long enough to ask. "Sesshomaru what will I do now? Where will I go?"

Without a second thought he replied. "You shall live with me," it was a simple answer and the only solution that seemed possible. Kagome was now 18 and would not be able to find a home with relatives. He loved Kagome and couldn't think of anything better to him then waking up every morning to her held tightly in his arms. It was a perfect fit.

The sunset on the two grave markers and, if someone had been there, you would swear you heard soft whispers of, "I'm so proud of you Kagome," and "I love you sis" dancing on the wind. As finally the two spirits left the world assured that Kagome would be in the best care possible.

Sakura Higarashi Souta Higarashi

"Loving mother, 'Taken so young

and loving person" may your smile warm up heaven'

Jou Chan was buried at the shrine so he, like the other priests could continue to protect the ones he loved.

Rei Higarashi

'Priest of Sunset shrine'

'May he continue to protect us,

From the other world.'

High above in the clouds the angels smiled as they watch the two lovers. While somewhere in the world a rose grew from within concrete. Proving that nothing is impossible you just need, A Reason to Live.

The End.

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Saying a finally good bye.

Kimonoprincess