Hold On To Me Love

Epilogue: One Year Later

Epilogue

Kagome lay on her bed looking up at her ceiling, it was December and all she had towards that month was hate. This December her family decided to go on vacation, she choose to stay behind. It had been a year since Inuyasha died, since she finished collecting the jewel, since Naraku somehow got defeated. She fingered the necklace around her neck and looked around her room. Tetsusaiga hung on her wall, along with the prayer beads. I hate December; this month is full of pain, and suffering. She got up and walked out the door of her room heading outside. I guess walking through the forest won't kill me. As she walked deeper into the forest she noticed it had begun to snow quite heavily. It's as if I'm walking through a white forest.

She stopped walking and went over her last thought, upon impulse she began to run, she had no idea why she was running nor to where. All she knew was to run, and to keep going. When she came to a stop she noticed that it was by a small lake. She blinked and looked at it, for on a rock over hanging the lake a bit sat an angel, his white feathery wings out spread and his halo hanging lopsidedly. Long silvery bluish black hair fell down his back, and as he turned to face Kagome his eyes seemed to shine a violet gold. "I kept my promise to protect you." He whispered so softly it seemed to sound more like a gentle breeze than words.

It was then that Kagome understood the words he spoke so long ago.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome screamed running forwards and hugging him tightly. "Kagome, I see you still have the jewel." Kagome nodded, and lifted he necklace off her neck. "I finally have something to wish for. She stated smiling softly and closed her eyes. Brillant white light surrounded her and as the light faded away the snow began to fall once more. She lay on the snow pale her body grew still and she took a breath in once more. "I can't wait to see you in our next life Inuyasha…the life where we can be together." She smiled and exhaled closing her eyes and Inuyasha smiled nodding.

He knew she would wake soon and return home, this would be a life apart but the next… the next was theirs!