:Author's note: well then here's the last chapter of this story! yay! maybe i'll write a sequel if my brain is up to the task! but never the less...

dun dun dum!

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Epilogue

A crash was heard from outside the castle and Sesshomaru sighed. He watched as a ten year old Akio flew through the window followed by his sister. They weaved through three windows and dashed to the garden. Kagome poked her head from one of the windows.

"Aiko! Akio! Stop that! Hey! Get back here!" she appeared a few minutes later in the gardens as Sesshomaru followed closely behind. He had been gone for two years now following rumors of a new evil witch threatened the land. And with Inuyasha's help he was able to stop the threat before any harm could be done. He had longed for his mates embrace and his pup's laughter. He watched as kagome rounded up the twins both hugged her legs and sheathed their wings. Aiko had beautiful silver hair like her father and a black crescent moon on her forehead and the faint markings of black jagged strips on her wrist. Her wings were white with slight grayish tint to them her eyes were gray like her mother and she had the brightest smile. On kagome's other leg was Akio long jet black hair pulled into a low pony tail, his eyes mirrored his fathers gold and beautiful and on his forehead a deep blue crescent moon and the faint appearance of the marks on his face. Sesshomaru smiled. This is what he wanted to come home to…a family.

"I think that it is time for lunch." All three heads jerked up. Kagome gasped and the twins smiled and ran to their father. Kagome just stood in the grass eyes wide at what she saw. Sesshomaru kneeling down patting and hugging his pups just like a father would and then his eyes darted to hers. Molten pools of love and lust collided with hers and she felt her knees weaken. He whispered in their ears and they sprinted towards the castle. He then stood and approached kagome.

"It's been a while." She gave him a smile.

"It has." She watched the twins spring and dance on their way towards the castle.

"They really missed you. They would often sleep with me in the room to ensure that your spot was always warm." She bent down and picked a flower and twirled it in her hands.

"They would always ask me when you were coming back and I will say he'll come back when you stop asking. They would pout and scurry on, but never did they say you were dead or that you would never return." She smiled brightly at him.

"I knew you would come back, so how's Inuyasha?"

"He is fine; Inuyasha says he'll come by for a visit." She nodded and held her hand out. He gladly took it.

"Let's go before the twins destroy the castle." He walked with his mate back to his castle. They spent every part of the day together, him, her, and the twins. And he would smile genuine smiles that would catch kagome off guard every once in a while. It was late at night when kagome set the twins to bed. She walked back to her and Sesshomaru's room and sat on the bed and waited for him to return from the shower. She smiled when she remembered the look on her mothers ((not Mareko, its Kasumi remember? If u don't return to chaps 5 and 6)) face when she had brung Aiko and Akio to the present with her.

: Flashback:

Kagome stammered with the twins and helped them climb the ladder on the side of the well. They were at least five years old. Kagome smiled brightly as she fixed her pale pink and baby blue kimono and then fixed Aiko's lavender and silver kimono and Akio's hair and walked to her front door. She opened it slowly and entered. She turned to the twins and knelt down in front of them and placed a hand on their shoulder.

"Ok you guys today is the day you meet grandma Kasumi. Be on your best behavior." Both nodded.

"Hai mama!" both said she smiled and stood and entered the all too familiar Kitchen.

"Kasumi? Are you in there?"

"Kagome is that you? It's been a while since you came through, I would have thought that you'd be at the castle with Taki. What's with the sudden…" she dropped the spatula she was holding and gasped when she saw the twins latching on to kagome's legs. Her eyes were wide and her hands shook slightly.

"Kagome don't tell me……are they…" kagome nodded.

"Yup they're my twins, you've missed a lot Kasumi, the twins are five now I would have brought them earlier but they were too young, if heard from Taki that you were here." She smiled.

"Yea I'm here on business I've been etching to go home but I have to do work for the East here. Souta is downtown now; he won't be back for a few days. So who do we have here?" she said kneeling down in front of the twins.

"This is Akio." Kagome said nudging him foreword toward Kasumi.

"And this is Aiko." She said pushing her to stand next to her brother. Both smiled weakly. Kasumi smiled and her pink eyes lit up greatly at them.

"Well then Kasumi-can is on the job!" she heatedly hugged them both then pulled back.

"Well then kagome lets go shopping." Kagome smiled.

: end flashback:

Since then Kasumi was like a leach, every time she would come for a visit she would bring gifts cloths candy almost the whole store if it involved the twins. Kagome would end up with more modern day things than she thought. Kasumi was always one for the future trends. Kagome smiled. She loved the path she chose. She watched as Sesshomaru emerged from the bathroom, beads from the water still present on his shoulders and chest as he was only wearing a towel wrapped around his waist. ((Yum)) his hair was also wet as he approached kagome.

"Were you watching me?" he asked with a lusty grin. Kagome blushed.

"Who else would I be watching?" he gave her a short yet lingering kiss as he backed her up on the bed. She was now beat red. He smirked.

"It's good to know you still blush." He gave her another kiss but with more lust and passion. He then grabbed her wrist and made her fall back on the bed.

"Now, I hope you're good and ready kagome." His towel fell from around his waist and kagome wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him close.

"I am, two years is a very long time." He smirked and kissed her with more passion than ever.

'Kagome, my beautiful itoshii, aishiteru.'

End