Unplanned by Sessylove219

Change

She had changed everything. She never meant to do this, it just seemed inevitable that things had a tendency to change when she was around.

Shippou looked at his family, his little family that was missing it’s most important member, it’s integral cog, and felt sadness fill his heart. She had changed everything. She never meant to do this, it just seemed inevitable that things had a tendency to change when she was around. Now it seemed as if she had changed things yet again, this time, it was with her absence. Each member of this little pack felt it, and none knew exactly how to right the wrong that her death had caused.

When his adopted mother had finally claimed him as her own, he was ecstatic. He had been orphaned at sixty-eight, which was the equivalent of four in human years. He had wronged her, and in doing so, had shown her that he was honorable. It was strange how that worked. He tried to steal her shards to gain power to avenge his father. After Inuyasha and Kagome defeated the Thuder Brothers and had avenged his father, she saw the loneliness in him and had pressured Inuyasha into allowing him into their little group. He had joined them early on, and had been through all of the trials of the shard hunt with them. While he had looked towards Inuyasha as an older brother, it was always Kagome…Kagome was his mother, his protector, his everything.

It took her four years before she finally called him her son aloud, but he could tell from her scent that she had felt that way for much longer. Whenever he was threatened, her aura would envelop him in a protective barrier that even the Red Tetsuaiga could not breach. She would blaze like a torch, her reiki so strong it would light up the night. She protected him as fiercely as any mother, ningen or youkai, ever could.

When she slipped one night, telling Inuyasha to quit teasing her son, it seemed like the entire world stopped to take a breath. All was silent in their camp. Miroku had a thoughtful look on his face, Sango a small smile. All Inuyasha could do was stare. Shippou himself was in tears, and that night was the first that he had called her mother. He had never let a day go by after that when he did not call her thus. All was right, in his world.

Kagome’s announcement regarding her impending mating to the proud inuyoukai lord was met with reactions that were very similar. Shippou himself was overjoyed. He would finally have a family again, and with her mating a youkai, he would not lose her to time; her life would not be the short span of a ningen. He would have an eternity with his mother. He would have strong youkai father, one who would teach him all that he would need to know so that he could survive to his mother’s birth era. He wanted to meet his other uncle and his grandmother, of whom he had heard so much about.

She had changed everything. She never meant to do this, it just seemed inevitable that things had a tendency to change when she was around. She gave him a mother, a sister, a father, and on the last day of her life, a day that should have been filled with joy, she gave him a brother.

She also gave him a hole in his heart.

She had changed him. She had helped him evolve from a kitsune child full of sadness into one that was hopeful and full of mischief, but unlike other kits, he was not malicious. She gave him courage, she gave him conviction, she gave him a sense of justice and a sense that all beings deserved to live their life in peace. She taught him to respect all life, and to fight for those that were weaker than he was, because that was what she did. That is what she was. She was light in the darkness, calm in a storm, peace in a time of war.

She was goodness. She was love.

And she was gone.

Shippou tried to be a good brother, both to Rin and to InuDaiki. He tried to pass on her light, but it was so hard. Each day, when he saw InuDaiki’s face, or Rin’s failure to find joy in flowers, or Inuyasha’s downcast features, or Sesshoumaru’s sorrowful aura, he missed her a little more and realized just what a change she had brought about.

She had changed everything. She never meant to do this, it just seemed inevitable that things had a tendency to change when she was around. She changed everything, because no shadow could survive the onslaught of such a bright spirit, and no darkness could ever exist in the midst of such light.

The light was her love, and without it, the world just seemed like it was a darker place.

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