She lays silent in the soiled snow her eyes open slowly as she tried to focus in on her surroundings she struggled trying to crawl from under Inuyasha's body that protected her from the attacks. He stood there, sword laid atop his shoulder, eyes glancing out over the rampant destruction in the field ahead of him. She stopped unable to move as she shook him trying to get him to open his eyes only to fail her eyes filling with tears.

"I'm so sorry Inuyasha my love, but you got in our way..." He says as he walks towards the body. Her eyes closed tightly as she clutched the red tattered clothing of her friend's hoari. Slowly he approached still, his eyes closed, "I'm really sorry my love..."

"... Stay back..." Was the only thing she could think as she huddled under his body.

"You live still mortal wench...? The one that tries to steal my love from me!"

"You killed him you monster!" She looked up to him tear filled eyes.

"He was in the way... I didn't mean to kill him, but he protected you!" He lifted his sword overhead, "It's your fault he's dead!" Her eyes closed tightly as she clutched Inuyasha's hoari tighter.

Reaching down slowly, he grabs the back of Inuyasha's hoari and pulls up on it, lifting his body slightly. "He died because he protected you!" Her eyes opened as she clutched onto his hoari still trying to keep him from Jakotsu. Inuyasha's untransformed blade could be seen in her stomach blood rolling down still

"Release him wench, he died protecting you... YOU!" Pulling on Inuyasha, he tosses his body to the side slightly and glares down at the miko. She looked to him weakly as she tried to sit up only to slip falling back she struggled then for the blade only to have her hands rest at her side. A smirk played on the lips of the member of the Band of Seven, his form moving over her's, hand reaching for the hilt of Tetsusaiga.

"... What are you going to do slice me... Twist the blade to cause me pain..." Her eyes closed halfway. "...I'm to numb to feel anything anymore..."

Placing his hand on the hilt, he smirks slightly and pushes down on it a bit, "I don't know what to do with you... here I have you at my mercy... and I don't know what to do with you."

Flinches her eyes widen quickly then closed halfway once more. "...You took everything from me..."

"You took him from me... so I guess we're even..." He smirked, pushing down a bit more. Blood rolls down her lips as she looked to Inuyasha's corpse. Yanking the blade from her, he throws it aside and reaches down to grab her shirt collar. "What to do with you..."

Her head goes back slightly as she looked up to him weakly before smirking spiting the blood in his face. "...Monster!"

Throwing her aside, he walks over towards Inuyasha and kneels, picking up his corpse, "I will bury you in a fitting way my love..." She struggled to push herself up slipping further into the snow blood soaking melting the snow around her. He, tossing Inuyasha's body over his shoulder, glanced back at the woman. "Just die..."

"... Your willing to let his child die..." She spoke trying to keep her eyes open.

"His... child," he stopped, looking back at her inquiringly. Her eyes closed as her body going limp as she coughed more blood rolling down. "Get up..." he says with a slight growl to his tone, "Get up and come here." She stayed down her body motionless. Walking back towards her, he shifts Inuyasha's weight around a bit to make him easier to carry with one hand, his other reaching for the girl's shirt. Her eyes opened halfway showing a dull hue that of death that only seemed minutes away. His hand grabs her shirt and tugs her to her feet. Looks up to him weakly. "His child?" He was obviously distraught as he looked into her eyes annoyed.

"...Something... you could never give him..." She smirked as she coughed up more blood. "Shut up wench..." He growled, throwing her back to the ground. Rolls until finally stopping beside a tree.

"Child or not, I loved him! You took that from me!"

"... You took him from yourself..."

"He defended you! Because you're too weak to defend yourself!"

"...He only did it for the child... He cares nothing for me..."

"He should have let you die... then I would still have him!" Walking towards her again, he clenches his fist.

"...He wanted this child to live..."

"He... wanted a child with a mortal woman?"

"...A miko... at that..." She looked to him weakly.

"Get up..." he says with a grumble, grabbing her shirt once more. Blood drips heavily to the ground.

"You're coming with me..." he sighs, tossing her over his other shoulder.

"...What use am I to you...?"

"None, but he wants the child to live, then it'll live..."

"...What would you do with the child..."

"Make sure it lives, for my love's sake..." Looks down sadly blood soaks into his shirt. Grumbling, he walks slowly towards the camp that the band had set up the night before, one person on each shoulder.

"...Your members won't be happy... will they...?"

"Brother will respect my decision, since it's for my love."

She nodded looking to Inuyasha sadly. "...His body what are you going... to do with it...?"

"Give it a proper burial..." he says as he walks towards the camp still, "Now shut up, you have to keep your strength for the baby."

"...The baby... If the child hasn't been lost already..."

"I said shut up..." Closes her eyes slowly.

They approached the camp slowly, his arms holding the two bodies on his shoulders.

"... After the child is born... What will you do with me...?"

"You will have to raise the child..."

"... So you will let me live... What if I try to kill you...?"

"I'd like to see you try," he said with a smirk, a cold laugh escaping his parted lips.

"...You shall see then... You cold monster..."

"Shut up and conserve your energy before you kill yourself and thus ruin my hope of making my love's last wish come true."

"... Your slow I am losing to much blood because of your pace."

"If you would just do as I tell you and shut up you'd be fine, stupid mortal wench, I don't see what my love saw in you."

"... Tell you the truth... I don't either what he saw in me... Maybe it was Kikyou..."

"Well, never-the-less, you're mother to his child, now shut up so you will live, we're almost there." She nodded lightly looking down. The smell of cooking soup could be smelled in the air as they approached slowly.

"...That smell..." She looks up slowly.

"It's food, we're nearly to the camp, now will you just shut the hell up?" He was growing annoyed with the wench, but was dealing with her for his love. She looked at him weakly her head going down as she threw up all over his shirt. His eyes rolled, sighing slightly. "Was that really necessary... if you'd just shut up and conserved your energy we wouldn't be at this..."

"... That smell as the problem..." She spoke weakly giggling lightly.

"Cover you nose?" he said with a sigh as he entered the camp with her on his shoulder, the other members looking at him. She looked up slowly seeing the others.

Walking towards a small cloth tent, he pushes it open and lays her down.

Looks up to him sadly. "...Can you wait a few days before... burying him..."

"I... suppose... for now wrap your wounds..."

"Get me some clean cloths…"

"Demanding aren't we," he says with a sneer as he reaches over and grabs some dry, clean cloth and tosses it on her. Sits up weakly reaching for some clean cloth wrapping it around her arm. Slowly he begins to clean up Inuyasha's body, making it look a bit better despite the mess it is.

"... For the baby we should keep the hoari..."

"Agreed..." He says as he begins to strip down the hanyou. Looks away slowly continuing to wrap her wounds.

"His fire rat fur kimono will be kept for the child... we will dress him in proper burial clothing..."

"... So you will go on a raid then?"

"We have plenty of robes from previous raids... but we will likely be going on another soon for other provisions."

"...I can help you if you wish..."

"You will need to rest... the wound from m'love's sword will need constant tending for the child's safety."

"...So you will be helping me...?"

"For him... yes..."

She nodded lightly. "...Then can you help me now...?"

"What do you need," he asks, taking the hoari from the hanyou and folding it, laying it beside him.

Lifts her shirt exposing the wound that stretched from her left rib to her belly button.

Grabbing some cloth, he moves towards her, "I assume you want me to dress the wound."

"Yes please might be good if sewing some of the flesh back together." Looking around a bit, he tries to find a needle and some string. Stays put blood rolling down slowly. Grabbing a needle, he takes a tattered piece of her shirt and pulls a long string from it, "Got to make due..." Slowly he begins to sew her up expertly, since he'd gotten good at what he was doing. Flinches lightly at the start soon sitting silent not fussing or trying to pull away from him. Finishing it up, he leans down and bites off the extra string, laying a cloth over her, "Sit up so I can wrap it..." Moves to her knees straightening out a bit so he could wrap the wound. Starts to wrap the cloth around her slowly, making sure it was tight enough to keep pressure on the wound.

"Thank you..." She looked up to him smiling kindly.

"Yea..." he blinked and turned to look at Inuyasha, "I should finish cleaning him up and getting him ready."

She nodded lightly. "...Do you need me to do anything...?"

"Just rest..." He says as he stands and moves over towards Inuyasha once more, pushing open the blood stained, white yukata. Lies down slowly on the blankets leaving her shirt off to let the wound breath. His hands lift the hanyou's body, pulling his yukata off fully and folding it, placing it with the haori before taking a moist rag and cleaning up the blood stained flesh and hair. "I'm sorry love... but you... got in the way..."

She shivered lightly not from the cold, but how Jakotsu spoke. "...Just think of it this way you get a child... out of this..."

Slowly he cleans Inuyasha's skin, making him presentable before slowly removing his pants. "My my... if only you'd lived..." Stands weakly limping outside into the snow.

He blinks slightly and stands, going out after her and catching her by the shoulder, "Where are you going, I told you to rest!"

"...Stop talking like that then..." She looked down sadly. "... If you keep at this I'll miscarry your child..."

"Get back inside and rest..." He says with a grumble as he grabs her hand. Stays where she is looking to him her eyes filled with hatred. "Just... rest, please..." Letting her hand go, he returns to the tent to finish his preparations. She stood outside for a few minutes before returning. As she re-enters, he is cleaning the legs of Inuyasha, his pants folded neatly with the rest of his outfit. Lays down slowly on the bedding. His hands run down the legs of the hanyou until he's fully clean, slowly laying a blanket over him before laying down between him and Kagome.

"...Are you finished with his body now...?" She looked to him slowly.

"Yes... he's clean and ready..." Nods sadly looking forward.

"I will wait... until you are ready..." He says as he rolls onto his side to face her, closing his eyes slowly.

"... Thank you Jakotsu-kun..." Her eyes close slowly as she fell asleep. His own eyes fall to a soft close as he begins to drift off; tired from the battle he'd had earlier.

She slept silently her hands on her stomach protectively. His form shifted, laying on his stomach as he slept.

-A few days pass-

Sits silently beside his body looking down holding his hoari. Slowly entering the tent, Jakotsu holds out the silver and black silk burial robes. Keeps her eyes down away from him. "You... want to dress him...?" he says slowly as he drops the robes atop Inuyasha.

"...He's your lover you can do it..." Stands weakly walking outside still limping. Kneeling down, he begins to dress the body of the dead hanyou that he'd loved. Sits outside near the tent her eyes looking down to her stomach. After a few moments, he walks outside. "He's ready..." Stands struggling as she nodded looking up to him.

"Brother says we should cremate him..."

"... Why though."

"I... don't know... he just suggested it, but I wouldn't agree to it..."

"...I want somthing that the child could go to see..., but if we keep moving maybe we should cremate him..."

"We will bury him..." he says as he looks down at her, "I've taken the time to set up a stack of stones to mark his grave..."

She nodded lightly looking to the sky. "...What do your brothers think of me..."

"They've not said anything of you... I told them of my desire to raise the child, they have remained silent."

"...Jakotsu-kun... I will protect the child..."

"They've not said anything of you... I told them of my desire to raise the child, they have remained silent."

"...Jakotsu-kun... I will protect the child..."

"As will I..." he says looking down at her. "Now... let's prep him... I know it's not easy, but we must do it." She nodded lightly walking inside. Following her inside, he kneels down beside Inuyasha and picks him up. Stands beside the door. Walks out the door slowly and begins to walk towards the grave that he'd dug for his love. Stays silent as she fallowed limping. Quietly he approaches the hole in the ground.

"... I am sorry that I was there Jakotsu-kun..."

"Don't worry about it..." he says as he kneels down by the hole, slowly lowering the hanyou into the ground. Places her hands on her stomach as she watched. Laying the hanyou in the ground, he slowly stands and bows his head slightly. Bows slowly looking at the hanyou still. Slowly, he begins to cover the hanyou's body, watching the girl.

"...He won't be able to hurt me anymore..."

"Yes..." he says as he buries the hanyou's body slowly, not covering his face until the whole of the rest of his body was covered. Stays silent until he was finished with the burial. Pushing the last of the dirt in, he lowers his head a bit and glances back at the buried hanyou. Walks away sadly toward camp. Stands quietly and slowly follows her.

"...You can stay for your lover..."

"I... it's ok... what's done is done..."

"...I took your lover from you and all you can say is what's done is done... You have been torturing me... saying if only you were not there..."

"He's gone already... and we've buried him... it is done..." Nods looking down holding her stomach. Slowly he moves behind her, towards the tent again. Steps inside slowly. Follows her inside with a bit of a smile. Lies down on the bedding she was given. Taking a seat on his bedding, he lowers his head slightly and closes his eyes.

"...Jakotsu-kun..." She spoke barely above a whisper.

"Yes..." he says softly as he glances over at her and opens his eyes slowly.

"...Can you get me some food... Please..."

"Yea, I'll be back soon with it..." Slowly he stands and goes to get some food.