A/N: Thank you all for your continued support despite late updates. This chapter will hopefully make you happy. Ive had a few questions about what happened to the original gang, especially shippo. I will adress that this chapter. Also, inspiration hit me, and I've started another Inuyasha fanfiction titled "The Miko Who Leapt Through Time Again". Im going to try a different route and a little ooc Kagome. That is all, thank you again!- -

Months passed, turning from Spring to Summer, and then Fall. They visited with each other constantly. Kagome found their visits to be the only relief for the ache she constantly felt in her heart. Even if it was selfish of her, because he was part of a past she knew, even if he really wasn't.

Sesshomaru was the CEO of a tech company located in the middle of the city by the name of Taisho Corp. It towered above the other buildings in the area; Kagome swore to herself that it was the biggest skyscraper she had ever seen, to Sesshomaru's amusement. One particular day, she arrived in the lobby with a small ochre basket - she normally used it for picnics, but it was easier to walk all the way from the shrine this way. It was her usual bento box, like the ones she used to take to her friends as a treat after a harsh battle with Naraku, or for collecting shards. A memory of them all sitting around a fire and fighting over her food made Kagome chortle as she entered the front doors.

'No wonder the building is so tall," She thought. "The ceiling is so high.."

Everything was cream colored with gold trim, down to the little flower patterns on the front desk. She realized later, they resembled the flowers that Sesshomaru use to wear on his haori. She absentmindedly traced her fingers along the flowers carved in the desk.

She heard a little cough and a small voice say, "Ahem,"

Her head shot up to the red-headed woman sitting at the desk, who stared at her with a slightly annoyed expression. Her aura screamed 'proud fox', and Kagome vaguely realized that she'd identified a demon without really trying.

"What can I help you with?" She asked, the bored tone in her voice not quite matching up with the words.

She held up the basket holding the bento boxes inside, "I just came to bring Sesshomaru-Sama some lunch. I wasn't sure when that was for him usually, so I just showed up around noon..."

"He's in a meeting." The receptionist snapped, "It will be some time before he comes down from the office. He's too busy for a little girl like you to be bothering him today, anyway."

"First of all, my name is not little girl," Kagome retorted, her anger rising. "It's Kagome, say it with me. Ka.Go.Me! Second, I know he doesn't have any meetings today; That's why it's okay for me to bring him something to eat today. it was planned."

"Oh Mother, would you let her be, Taisho-Senpai already informed me of this engagement. She's harmless, let her through," The smooth male voice sounded oddly familiar, and she was greeted by emerald green eyes and reddish-orange hair that was kept in a sleek bun. He was tall, much taller than her, but when he smiled at her and let out a little "heh" she almost dropped everything.

The woman let out a short, angry sigh, then pressed a button, "Taisho-Sama," She said, her voice secreting so much sugar Kagome nearly gagged. "There is a little girl waiting here in the lobby for you,"

"Oh mama," The tall man groaned, sensing the woman's growing agitation.

Kagome slammed her right fist down on the desk, giving the woman a glare that had often been seen by a certain hanyo. She leaned forward so they were almost nose to nose. "My name.. is KAGOME and...!

She didn't get to finish her tirade, because the elevator dinged and the green-eyed man she was sure had to somehow be shippo, had pulled her away.

"Now now," He mumbled. "Let's not fight today, okay Kagome?"

He let her go, and she made her

way around the desk, looking back once to stick her tongue out at the crabby desk lady as she stood beside Sesshomaru in the elevator.

Shippo talked to the woman still, as the doors closed, and had even called her mama. Of course in this life, maybe his clan hadn't been killed by the blood thirsty, jewel-crazed Thunder Brothers. Kagome held the image of him as a grown up in her mind. She was sure that as long as she kept seeing Sesshomaru, she could see her Shippo.

Said taiyokai was staring at her with a blank expression, chopsticks poised in the air, sushi just centimeters away from his mouth.

"What?"

"You look happy today," He plopped the roll in his mouth and swallowed.

She laughed, "I suppose I am, but I won't be if you choke."

Kagome knew that today was one of her better days.