A/N: This is my first fic, so dont be too mean, ne? Just so ya know, this is a Sesshoumaru/Kagome fic, with minor Miroku/Sango, and Kikyo/Inuyasha. Just letting you guys know, Kouga and the other characters are not going to appear, but they will be mentioned. I hope you all like it, I have had this idea in my brain for quite a while now, but I am just so horribly lazy and unmotivated, that I havent wanted to write it out until now. This fic takes place after the final battle, after Naraku is destroyed, and the Shikon no Tama is completed. I am not gonna say anymore, caue I dont want to ruin it for ya. :P

Oh, and just waring ya, THERE WILL BE LEMONS! They will be marked, so you can skip them. I will also be using the original japanese terms for attacks and such, so if you dont understand one, look it up. ANNND, there is cussing in here, just tellin ya.

Disclamer: sigh I dont own Inuyasha or any of its characters. If I did, then...wait. Cant say that. Dont want to scare the kiddies. shrug

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Prolouge Part 1: The Final Battle

Inuyasha charged forward, swinging Tetsusaiga at the enemy, "Kaze no Kizu!!"

"Kukuku. You think that little attack can damage me Inuyasha?", Naraku taunted as he pulled up his barrier, effectively blocking Inuyasha's attack.

Kagome looked across the field of battle from her perch atop a boulder, hidden from sight, her miko garb fluttering slightly in the wind (A/N: Yes, she is wearing miko garb for the final battle, seeing as it is easier to move around in than her uniform.). Sango was busy dodging and blocking Kohaku's attacks with her Hiraikotsu, Miroku was keeping Kanna and her mirror at bay with his sacred sutras, little Shippos was on the sidelines protected from the battle by one of Kagome's barriers being attacked by lower demons as Kirara defended him, and their most unlikely and supprising "ally" Lord Sesshoumaru was attacking Kagura with Tokijin and knocking her Fujin no Mai back at her. Inuyasha was across the battle field, fighting their greatest enemy, Naraku. He kept trying to hit Naraku, but even with his barrier now disabled, he seemed untouchable as he dodged every attack as if it never happened, and returned that attack or attacked him with his tentacles, Inuyasha's fire rat haori now sporting slashes and holes from the barrage of attacks. 'I have to get the rest of the Shikon from him, or Inuyasha will never be able to hit him!' thought Kagome as she strung her bow, aiming for Naraku. She took one last look around the battle scarred ground, and then waited for the perfect time to fire her sacred arrows.

"Take this Naraku, you dirty piece of shit!" yelled Inuyasha as he prepared to unleash his Bakuryuha towards Naraku.

Naraku simply chuckled and was about to sidestep the coming attack when a bright pink light blinded him for a moment. Looking down, he saw that there was an arrow effectively pinning one of his many tentacles to the ground. Turning towards the source of the light, he saw her. Inuyasha's wench. He growled and narrowed his eyes and attacked Inuyasha again, hitting him in the arm with one of his tentacles. How he hated that miko! She was constantly interfereing with his plans to kill Inuyasha and get the rest of HIS Shikon shards. 'Kukuku. Well little miko...today is the day that you no longer bother this Naraku with your annoying presence, I will destroy you when you least expect it...'

"Please no...Kohaku..." Sango sobbed as she continued to block and evade Kohaku's Kusarigama with her katana and Hiraikotsu, dodging the deadly sickle as it came towards her time and time again, Kirara not here to help her, as the fire neko was transformed into her larger size close to little Shippo, trying in vain to help protect him. She felt so hopeless and exaughsted, he kept attacking and landing harsh blows, no matter how much she pleaded for him to snap out of it, her baby brother seemed to be hellbent on killing her, and it was all Naraku's fault. She jumped a fair ways back, preparing to use more defensive manuevers and to rest a little when she heard a shrill scream across the battle field, and watched as Sesshoumaru's Soryuha delivered the final blow to Kagura before turning her attention back to Kohaku as he sent his Kusarigama after her once again with mindless deadly intent.

Falling towards the ground off of her giant feather, Kagura hit the ground with a sickening bloody thud. Fan falling out of her hand, she lifted her now empty bloody hand and put it to her left breast, right where her heart would have been. She closed her eyes, the blood from the cuts on her forehead dripping into her eyes, creating tear-like blood trails down her cheeks. Suddenly feeling very cold, she wispered with her last dying breath to no one in particular, "Now I am truly free...free as the wind..."

Miroku heard the shrill scream, and then felt a life force leave the battle field. Not able to turn around to check if it was a friend or foe, he threw another sutra at the little void demon and kept trying to keep her back away from the others. 'This is going no where, I am completely out-matched...,' he thought despairingly.

Miroku looked around, seeing the Saimyosho fluttering in the air above him, preventing him from using his Kazana against Kanna. Kanna once more turned her mirror towards him, trying to suck out the battle weary monk's soul once again. Realizing he was out of sacred sutras, houshi was beginning to resign himself to his fate, when a white blur sped in front of him and towards his enemy. Looking towards where the blur went, he saw Lord Sesshoumaru's pristine and unharmed form standing over the body of the now dead void demon, Tokijin pierceing the mirror straight through both it and Kanna, supprisingly absorbing the mirrors powers.

No expression crossed the the stoic porcelain white face of the void demon. Kanna gave an involuntary cough, crimson life's blood dripping out of her mouth and down her chin, shining in bright contrast against the pale skin of her face. With a sickening sucking sound, Lord Sesshoumaru drew his demonic sword out Kanna, not a drop of blood landing on his kimono, amazed and pleased that Tokijin could absorb even the mirror's weird and awesome power. Mirror dropping out of her now numb hands to her feet with a soft thud, she turned and looked across the battle scarred field. Miroku looked on as the void demon turned and looked towards the fallen and bloody corpse of her sister Kagura, and watched in amazement as a lone single pristine tear slowly slid from her eye down her cheek before her eyes closed forever and she fell forward in a slump upon the bloody ground.

"Human," Lord Sesshoumaru turned and faced the houshi, "You are not needed in this battle. Go and protect that little kitsune, he seems to be in need of some asistance."

Still uninjured, Miroku looked over to his left towards where Shippo was, and indeed saw that he need some help. One of Naraku's mindless demon minions, an Ogre, had knocked Kirara against a tree, where she lay at the base of it knocked out, and was now beating on Kagome's shield with it's fists, and it looked as though it would not hold much longer. With a short nod to the Taiyoukai, he sped over to shippo and attacked the Ogre demon with his Shakujou, diverting the attention off of the defenseless little kitsune youkai.

Across the field of battle, Inuyasha was now landing attacks on the barrierless Naraku, but the he just kept regenerating, thanks to his large portion of the Shikon. 'Damn it! That bastard just keeps regenerating his sick flesh! How the fuck am I supposed to land an attack without him healing himself?!' Inuyasha leapt forward and attacked Naraku again, hoping that his regeneration would somehow crap out.

Noticing how irritated and distracted the hanyou was, Naraku decided that it was time to distract him just a bit more, and then he could kill the useless hanyou once and for all. "Kukuku. You think that you can defeat me, Inuyasha? But how can you possibly deafeat me without your precious miko by your side?" Moving with great speed, Naraku sent one of his tentacles towards Kagome, who had been sneaking closer through the trees towards the pair, trying to find a good spot to help Inuyasha and fire her arrows towards the vile hanyou.

Kagome screamed as the tentacle grasped her roughly and tightly around her waist, her left arm bound to her side, arrows and bow slung across her back now useless. "INUYASHA!!"

Inuyasha looked at Naraku after he said something about Kagome, only to hear her scream his name as a tentacle shot out and ensnared her in its brutal grasp. "KAGOME!! Hold on!!" He shot forward towards Naraku, bringing up his Tetsusaiga, only to stop as Naraku brought Kagome forward and placed her dangling in the air in front of him, using her as a shield, effectively stopping his attack. "You bastard! Let Kagome go!!", Inuyasha shouted, lowering his sword to a defensive position in front of him.

"Why Inuyasha, why ever would I do that? I have plans for your little miko after I get her shards and complete the Shikon no Tama." Naraku's tentacle brought a very frightened Kagome to his side, where he proceded to slowly lick her cheek.

"Y-you sick fuck! Let her go!!", Inuyasha screamed as Naraku licked her cheek in a disgusting manner.

Kagome felt him lick her cheek, and shivered as digust radiated down her body in waves from being so close to the dark and evil hanyou. Not hearing Inuyasha's scream in her fear induced haze, she suddenly froze. She felt something calling out to her...something familiar. 'The Shikon!', she thought, 'It's calling to me! But how...?' She felt a warmth spread through out her body, starting at her neck. looking down, she saw the shards in the bottle around her neck glow slightly. Suddenly filled with a mix of anger at what Naraku did, resolve, and courage from the shards at her neck, she slowly freed her left arm and reached around for her some arrows while Naraku was distracted with taunting a now furious Inuyasha, who didnt notice her actions.

Inuyasha fumed and shouted once again, "Naraku! Let her go you sick fuck, or else!"

Naraku chuckled, "Kukuku. Or else? What are you going to do to me? Swing your useless sword at me, and possibly harm your precious miko?"

He growled, "You bastard!", and then leapt at Naraku once more.

Suddenly a bright light surrounded Naraku, Inuyasha's attack bouncing off of it. "What the fuck...I thought I broke down his barrier?", Inuyasha grumbled in confusion. As the light inside the sphere cleared, he could clearly see Kagome standing over the slumped body of Naraku, arrows imbedded on his back where the spider shaped scar was, and one in his chest, near his heart.

Kagome heard Inuyasha's angry words, and as soon as he went to attack, she made her move. Moving swiftly, she quickly pierced the three powerful sacred arrows in her right hand into Naraku's spider scar, and the one in her left hand pumped with extra purifiying spiritual energy above his heart, piercing through it and purifying the almost whole half of the Shikon no Tama that was hidden there.

Slumping forward after a bright pain spread through out his body, Naraku's demonic body twitched as the demons he absorbed slowly and surely purified within him. Looking up at the miko who did him in, his body gave one last final violent twitch as it was completely purified, leaving only the badly burned body of the thief Onigumo on the ground at Kagome's feet. The almost whole Shikon no Tama resting in the palm of Kagome's hand, he pleaded with her. "P-please...give me the jewel...", he rasped as he reached out with horribly burned arm.

Kagome looked down at the body of the now purified Onigumo, and heard his pained request. She shook her head, "No. You have caused enough damage in this world. Go now in peace, to where you belong." She clasped her hands in front of her, head bowed, as an unseen wind slowly swirled her dark hair around her as she started chanting the sacred spell that she learned from none other than Kikyo only a week before.

Flashback

Kagome leaned her head back against the stone of the natural hotspring, relaxing after a hard day of hunting down Naraku with no leads. She sighed and looked towards her now small bag. Eversince the well sealed on it's own accord, she hadnt been able to go and get her usual supplies. She had no more ramen, wich made Inuyasha rant and rave for an hour before she got tired of it and sat him. She still had her first aid kit, and lots of bathing and feminine supplies because whenever she went home she would bring tons of extra and stockpile it at Kaede's. She had some clothes from her time left too, thankfully. She had two apirs of jeans, a few tshirts, a thick sweater for cold nights, and lots of underclothes. Unfortunetly, she thought with some chagrin, her uniform had been beyond repare and she had to use it for rags and bandages. With a sigh she got out of the relaxing hot water of the hotsprings after thinking over her dwindling supplies, and quickly dried in the cold night air and dressed in some jeans and a tshirt, packing up her now small amount of things to get ready to go back to camp. Thats when she saw them. Kikyo's Shinidama Chuu, floating in the distance towards the center of the forest. Quickly shouldering her big yellow pack, she ran for a ways and followed them through the dark and dense undergrowth of the forest, coming to stop at the edge of a small clearing.

Turning around, Kikyo faced her hated reincarnation, but that hate would have to be placed aside for now. She would not be able to participate in the upcoming final battle against Naraku, her clay form was too unstable and couldnt take much damage, but she could do something to try and rid the world of that vile abomanation Naraku, even if she had to teach her reincarnation how to do it. Putting on a face of indifference, she took a step forward, her Shinidama Chuu floating on the outside of the clearing in the trees, creating a barrier of sorts so they wouldnt be interupted. "You came."

Kagome looked at her in suprise. 'She was expecting ME?! I thought she hated me?' As if she was reading her thoughts, Kikyo spoke harshly, "Do not forget, my reincarnation, I hate you, and I will be together with Inuyasha once I take him to hell with me." A look of anger and confusion spread across Kagome's face, and was about to demand why she wanted to see her when Kikyo cut her off. "I will not be able to participate in the coming final battle against the vile hanyou Naraku, and to insure that he finally meets his end and is sent to hell, I...," Kikyo stopped there, a look of hatred, resentment, and disgust on her ashen face, not wanting to seek the help of her reincarnation.

Kagome was once again confused. 'Was she going to ask me for something?', she thought silently. She waited another minute, and then Kikyo continued.

"In order to ensure his demise, you need to learn a sacred spell," Kagome was about to interupt asking why and how, when Kikyo held up her hand finished her sentence with a quiet and hate filled sigh, "and I am going to teach it to you."

After Kagome got over her initial shock, I mean, Kikyo, KIKYO, was asking HER, her hated reincarnation to learn a spell, and SHE was going to teach it to HER, she stepped towards Kikyo and nodded, knowing that she probably shouldnt say anything, she didnt want to screw up and say something wrong, and then Kikyo wouldnt teach her this important spell.

After 10 or so minutes, Kikyo left, the important spell taught to Kagome, who headed back to camp after Kikyo left. Little did they both know how important that sacred spell would be, and the affects it would have on Kagome after she cast it...

End Flashback

Chanting quietly, the unseen wind around her picked up, whiping her midnight black hair and miko garb around her fiercely as she got farther into the chant. Enveloped in a beautiful soft light pink light, she opened her now azure blue eyes and chanted the final words of the sacred spell, hands clasped tightly together and watched as a hole slowly opened, long black hands reaching out of it and grabbed the body of Onigumo, pulling him down into the hole and into depths of hell, where he would pay for his sins for all enternity. Once the hole closed, sealing Onigumo away forever, the winds inside the barrier died down, slowly calming down into nothing. Closing her eyes once more, she unclasped her hands, and took the shards out of the bottle at her neck, including Koga's who gave the group his two or three weeks ago proclaiming that he didnt need them, and combined them with the large piece of the now purified Shikon, and now only one was missing.

Sango cried out as Kohaku's lifeless eyes closed and he fell to the side, kusarigama in hand, finally free from Naraku's control. She dropped her Hiraikostsu and ran to his side, dropping to her knees, resting her head on his still chest and sobbed, starting when she felt a pair of arms wrap around her, mindful of her still bleeding injuries. She glanced up through teary eyes at Miroku, whose hands were supprisingly not wandering where they shouldnt be for once. "Sango," he said softly, "he is finally free from Naraku's control, be happy that he no longer has to relive the memories of what he did while under Naraku's control. He is at peace now Sango...let him go..." Sango burst into new tears at the end of Miroku's words, knowing he was right. Miroku held onto the woman he loved as she cried tears for her brother, for the life he could have had that was taken away from him so unjustly, and for the pain he had to suffer at the hands of their now dead enemy.

Lord Sesshomaru watched as Inuyasha walked up to Kagome, Testusaiga sheathed at his side, who stood motionless staring at the almost completed Shikon in her hands. Deciding he was done here, sheathing Tokijin at his side he started walking away from the battle field, when a soft voice stopped him. "Thank you Lord Sesshoumaru." He looked back at the now dark blue eyed miko who thanked him, suprise painted on the face on the face of Inuyasha, and nodded once before continuning towards the treeline, dissapearing after a few moments into the darkness of the forest around the battle scarred ground.

Kagome saw Inuyasha next to her out of the corner of her eye, and saw Lord Sesshoumaru walking away out of the other. She turned and softly thanked him, knowing he could hear her, gratitude showing in her eyes for helping them. She saw him stop and nod towards her and walk away, and then turned to where Sango was kneeled on the ground next to Kohaku's lifeless body, sobbing while Miroku held her, speaking soft comforting words. Ignoring the shocked Inu hanyou, she walked towards her two friends, and then realized Shippo was still in the barrier of to the side, passed out from fear. She walked towards him, the barrier dropping, and picked him up, setting him next to the unconcious fire neko, where he would be out of the way and safe. After doing that, she again walked towards her two friends, and kneeled by Sango.

Sango looked up through her tears when she heard Kagome kneel beside her, shocked when she saw blue eyes instead of the customary warm brown she was so used to. As Kagome put a hand on her shoulder, Inuyasha walked up and stood behind Miroku, bloody arms crossed over his battered chest and trying to hide his discomfort over his taijiya friend's grief and not knowing how to comfort her.

Kagome looked into Sango's eyes and said, "Sango, he is safe and at peace now. I-I'm so sorry...I know you loved him very much..." Tears started to leak out of her eyes as well, and she swept Sango up into a crushing and comforting hug as Miroku let go so the two females could embrace. They both cried for a few minutes, Kagome sharing her grief with her, knowing that she couldnt possibly shoulder it all alone. After all, Kohaku was her only family left, under Naraku's control or not, and she just lost him.

Sango gave her a weak pat on the arm and she pulled away slightly and smiled sadly. "Thank you Kagome...I-I just thought that maybe we could help him somehow, that maybe he would live and we could have the life we used to again..."

Miroku kneeled down by Sango again, laying a arm over her shoulder atop Kagome's, and said with sadness in his voice, "We know Sango, but that would have been impossbile. Naraku's control over the Shikon shard in his back was the only thing keeping him alive, and even if he did live, the memories of waht he did would be too much for him to handle. It is best this way, he is in peace in Kami's good grace, and wont have to suffer anymore."

Sango nodded sadly and sniffed, "Thank you Miroku, Kagome. I know you guys are right, it's just kinda hard to accept..."

Kagome smiled sadly at her friend, who was looking at Kohaku again. "Thats alright. It is going to be hard to accept for a long time, because you are grieveing. I did the same thing after my father died, I just couldnt accept that he was really gone, and wasnt come back anymore. But after a while, the pain went away, and I was able to move on. It's ok to grieve, it is a natural thing, ok?"

Sango nodded and then stood up, picking up her Hiraikotsu, she gave her friends a teary eyed smile and walked towards Kirara, turning her head in mid stride she said, "Kagome...you can take it out now...I dont mind if you do it.", and then continued over to where her fire neko pet and Shippo were, picking them up and walking a little ways away from the clearing towards where they had made camp earlier, Miroku following close behind just in case she needed help.

Inuyasha held his breath in anticipation as he watched as Kagome knelt over Kohaku and took out the last shard of the Shikon and purified it, adding it to the rest of the jewel. In a small flash of light, it was done, the Shikon no Tama was whole once more, and he couldnt wait to get his hands on it.

A/N: Sorry guys, I know it is a cliffie, but you gotta trust me that it is necissary. This prolouge has two parts, tune in next time to see why Inuyasha wants the complete Shikon no Tama!

See ya next time, Ninjaru