So, an explanation of what happened might be in order.

First, for a view of the different parts of a little sail boat, I used this link here, along with my own knowledge being in a sail boat once and from all the sailing stories I've ever read. /206256_sailboat_

Second. Where are Inuyasha and Rin you might ask?

Well, they have landed on the southern tip of what we would now call South Korea. I know, friggin Korea, right? Only, in feudal era Japan, this area was under control of China. So, to Inuyasha and Rin, they've landed in China. It is a little over 100 miles from the southern most bit of mainland South Korea to Japan. Also, I didn't know this, but the "western lands" of Japan are like, the southern parts of it. The island is shaped like a 'j'. Go figure.

How did Inuyasha and Rin get there in a little fishing boat?

The ocean currents between Japan and 'the mainland' run east and north. They basically follow the J of the Japan islands. And the winds for their weather? They run north and west. So which direction is Inuyasha's boat being carried to by both wind and water? North! I had him follow the run of the weather currents more than the water currents to be honest. I didn't want him and Rin lost at sea for days. So they made the 100 mile journey from one sunset to the next sunrise. I feel that's reasonable.

There is a bit of inaccuracy. The water moving towards Japan is warm water. The ocean would be warm. But I only have experience with cold ocean water. So, their water was cold. It added to the atmosphere of the story. If I can have demons and magic swords, then I get to have cold ocean waters too, you know what I mean?

And what is going to happen to Inuyasha and Rin next?

Well, they are going to run. Sesshomaru is still alive. He's just 'away' for a while. He'll come back home and find them gone. He'll have 13 days to wait before then though, if he remains on schedule. And from there he'll have to track Inuyasha down. 13 days for the trail to get cold. He can probably find the place where Inuyasha and Rin set sail. He can interrogate and then kill the fishing village. He can then assume they escaped to the mainland. From there, he can go to the mainland and chase them down, but by the time he gets there, is he going to be in the same locale as Inuyasha and Rin? I don't think so. They didn't really follow a normal path, I don't believe.

If Inuyasha realizes that that is the most likely place for Sesshomaru to chase after them from, he's going to go as far away from China as possible. Which direction do I think he'll go first? North. He'll say hello to the Mongols and the Russians. Maybe he'll swing west and keep going, running ahead of Sesshomaru's threatening gaze.

Point is, as long as Inuyasha keeps moving away, he's free and in the clear. To be sure, Sesshomaru will probably hunt for a while, a long while, but how long until he assumes that Inuyasha and Rin died in the ocean. He knows they only took a fishing boat, and he might hear about the storm that happened around the time the two might have set sail. How long before he stops looking for halfbreeds and starts looking for corpses? And how long after that until he stops looking all together?

I give it a year, maybe 3, and Inuyasha can settle down and Rin can grow up and everyone is happy. Well, Inuyasha maybe… until Rin gets old and dies.

Wait, what about Naraku? And the Jewel Shards?

Well, Kagome and them are still alive, aren't they? Sheesh. I don't know what's going to happen to them. But as long as Sesshomaru lives, and Inuyasha hasn't heard about his death or anything, until then, Inuyasha isn't /ever/ going back to Japan.

Hey, Inuyasha is kinda OOC here at the end. I don't like that!

Well, you get shoved in a cellar, starved, beaten and raped for a few days and see how spunky you are. I'll be nice and not add the brain washing factor of being harshly punished for every wrong doing and praised for the new good behavior of taking care of Rin. I'll let you just like Rin because she's cute, not because by contrast against Sesshomaru she's the most beautiful, purest soul in the world.

But that's supposed to be Kagome!

Rin is Inuyasha's replacement Kagome. I thought I was totally making that clear with the "warm brown eyes" bits and Inuyasha's unwillingness "to see them dim even a little bit." Those aren't quite quotes, but I'm sure that last one is written in almost word for word at some point.

Anyway, that was my story. I was going to write Inuyasha's escapades with the Russians, but that was when I first started this story, and that was /years/ ago. I like how it ends from right here.

And for those who thought Inuyasha was OOC, he'll return back to character when he gets introduced to Vodka. Rin will learn Russian quick because she's young, and Inuyasha will learn the swear words in the first month. He might have an easier time of it in Russia, if they don't have demons like japan and china do. They might think him as a werewolf though and try to shoot him with silver bullets, but hey, he can run. Or wear a damn hat and gloves because it's cold and /Russia/.

I dunno, I just really think he'll enjoy vodka.

Well, those who've stuck with me till the end, thank you. Those who are just picking up the story now, tell your friends. This story only gets traffic when I post a new chapter, and this is the final one. Just a little bit of prologue on the end. So, now I cast it into the sea of the internet like the big blue diamond at the end of titanic, and may it someday wash up on the shores of internet Russia and learn to swear and chug vodka.

-The Inu-pup