Every step I take, Every move I make
Every single day, every time I pray -- I'll be missing you
Thinking of the day, when you went away
What a life to take, what a bond to break -- I'll be missing you
-Puff Daddy Featuring Faith Evans and 112
The cold winter wind whipped Kagome's long ebony hair off her back and made it float slowly on the air as if it were in water. She had never been prepared for this part of her life the part where her whole world had come crashing down. Her dark brown eyes scanned the meadow she was standing in as she pulled the wool coat she wore tighter around her thin shoulders.
Standing in front of the polished stone with her young son was almost too much for her to bear. "I will miss you so much, especially on nights of the crescent moon." she whispered into the fog as she brought her hands up to wipe the tears from her face. She crouched and placed a bouquet of white lilies at the base just under the inscription.
The illness had taken Sesshomaru slowly. A modern human disease too powerful even for a youkai. The loss of appetite wasn't much of a give away as he hardly ate anyway, but when he began coughing up blood Kagome new there was something amiss. By the time she had convinced him to see a human doctor he was stick thin and wracked with pain, Lung cancer was the culprit . Kagome would sit by his bed his large hand incased in her much smaller ones. He told her constantly to go home and take care of the children and herself, but she ignored him and stayed by his side. Then one day he kissed her hand and closed his eyes. Sesshomaru never woke up, Kagome crawled into his hospital bed and clung to him she cried until she felt her lungs might explode.
The next day Kagome left the hospital to go make the funeral arrangements. The hardest part was trying to explain to their two youngest children that daddy wouldn't be coming home. Why did anyone ever have to die?
Kagome lead Kiba her young son into the house and turned to close the door, and there on the stone she could have sworn she saw Sesshomaru, her mate sitting there staring at the crescent moon.