Alright, to everyone who read this, I am sooooo sorry! I know that it was added a year ago and that I never finished it, but that is why I am scrapping it. I wrote it and rushed so much and then when I looked back I hated the way it was going. So with that in mind here comes the complete rewrite.

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Still of the Night

Chapter One: Lose one, Gain one

Kagome's legs gave under her sending her into the side of the well as tears blurred her vision once more. Turning and resting fully on the grass she let her head fall back onto the rim on the well. She had given so much when she had returned to the Feudal Era, she had watched her mother cry for her to stay with them and watched her grandfather turn his back on her for the decision to leave.

She had given up the joys of the future with the plumbing and the television and the ice cream to live in dirt and woods next to InuYasha. And even now that life was all for nothing, she should have known that the gods were not going to let the once Shikon Miko have happiness. It was a simple fact of life that she would always remember now.

Clearing her eyes she glanced up to see her good friend Miroku walking toward her with the fabled Tetsuseiga in his grasp. The sword had no meaning now, no true purpose for any living in the village.

InuYasha was dead…

*The Previous Day*

Kagome watched on in horror as InuYasha turned to late to evade the swipe from the bear. Her heart dropped as he let go of the fang and fell into the dirt, she drew her katana and rushed into the battle. The bear lifted his clawed paw leaving an opening Kagome knew to take.

Her blade plunged into his side puncturing the lung and heart before removing the crimson coated metal and turning to the hanyou. Tears running down her face she pulled his haori away from the wound. Blood came out faster than she could clean it, so she bundled the torn fabric and pressed down on it.

"Kagome…" He rasped looking up at her before touching her hand with his cold fingers.

"Don't you die on me InuYasha, you never die on me." She snapped looking back at Miroku and Sango. "We need to get him into the village." Nodding the two fashioned a pulling board while Kagome kept InuYasha conscious.

The sun dipped below the horizon as they got him into the back of the hut. His hair blackened and his ears morphed and before Kagome could say anything InuYasha slipped into blackness. She sat with him silently as Sango and Miroku cooked dinner and ate, and before she knew it Miroku was coming to talk to her.

"He has to live…" She looked at him with puffy eyes. "He can't die like this… he never dies from his wounds." The monk pulled her into a tight hug, rubbing her hair as he looked over the weak hanyou, then he stopped himself… InuYasha wasn't a hanyou now he was human, and he would suffer as such.

"We must be prepared for the worst Lady Kagome." He sighed letting her push away from him.

"What would I do without him?" She whispered. "I don't even love him, do you know that?" Miroku shook his head and waited for her to continue. "We married because we needed someone, but we didn't love each other… not like that."

"I am sure that InuYasha loves you deeply Kagome." He stood and walked to the door. "You should eat, he wouldn't want you starving." She reached out and took his human hand, which had chilled in the hours after the attack.

"Don't leave me InuYasha," She whimpered laying next to him as he fought the injury into the early morning. Then around four in the morning his eyes opened and they weren't the eyes of the fighting surviving InuYasha but the eyes of a fearful human. He rubbed her cheek and let her kiss him once more. "I love you…"

"I might not have loved you like you needed, but I did love you Kagome." He whispered before closing his eyes. "I can see my mother waiting for me…"

"Tell her I say hello, and that I was proud to stand beside you in battle." She whispered in his ear. He smiled as his chest gave one last shaky rise then fell, she felt his youki wash away and the pain in her chest crippled her with a scream. Everyone knew…

Miroku stopped before her with the fang in his hand, looking at the miko who had spent the last three hours preparing the body for burial. The body of a human man with pray beads around his neck and the fire rat robes loosely fitting his body. She had been gone since Sango had given her time to digest the new world, and he knew she would be at the well.

Given he had checked for her first at the God Tree where her foot prints could be clearly seen going to the spot she had first met the bad-mannered hanyou. Bur now was no time for these facts, now was the time for the woman to mourn this man, and then get on with her life.

"The fang should be with you, Lady Kagome." He held it out to her.

"What do I need it for?" She asked taking it from his hand and clutching it to her chest. "I can't use it; you can't… no one can…" She whimpered.

"No, but it should not be buried with him…" Miroku turned his attention to the trees farthest from the village where youki swelled toward them. Too powerful to be a lesser youkai. She had felt out to him, Miroku reasoned, so that he might know of his brother's passing.

"I didn't expect him to come so soon." She sighed. "Head back to the village Miroku, tell Sango I am fine and I will be back when Kouga gets here."

"He is on his way as well?"

"Yes I have contacted him as best I could." She stood readying for the talk about to ensue. Miroku nodded to her and retreated to the village to be with his wife and family.

Kagome turned to face him as he entered the clearing, his long silver hair blowing in the wind as he approached. Her heart ached at the memory of InuYasha's tangled mass of silver hair that normally adorned his head. Lord Sesshomaru stopped on the other side of the well from her, with his arms hanging at his sides.

"Thank you for coming, Lord Sesshomaru." He glanced toward the village and she felt him checking for InuYasha. "He died this morning, an hour before sunrise." She looked down and sighed. "He was injured by a bear before night fall… he died a human."

"Hn."

"I have no use for this fang," She held it up to him and watched as he stared at the sword. "I removed the wards so that you may use it." She placed it on the wood of the well and turned from him, her heart aching still. "That is why I called for you."

"How is my ward fairing?"

"She lives with me now, Keade passed away little over a month ago." Kagome looked up into his gold eyes only to turn away from them once more. "I have continued her training in the time." He stood before her, lifting her chin until she looked at him once more. "I can't look you in the eye… it still hurts."

"Human emotions are what bring the species down." He remarked letting her go. He lifted the Tetsuseiga and handed it back to her. "I have no need for this fang; it is weak compared to my others."

"What use do humans have for Tetsuseiga?" She asked with sadness in her voice. "All it does is remind me of InuYasha, none of us can use it." He sighed, loud enough for her human ears to pick up on.

"The whelp did not give you a child?" Kagome stared at him like his head was off, and he sniffed her before retracting the statement. "He never touched you…"

"We married, but we didn't mate." She blushed violently. "We didn't love each other in that way."

"My understanding was that marriage in human culture equaled mating to demon society." Kagome leaned against the well before looking at the demon next to her.

"We loved each other, we wanted to be together, but we couldn't get past other things… I looked like Kikyo and he always reminded me of my brother…" She laughed then, tossing her head back and letting her hair fall over her shoulders. "I tried to love him and he tried to love me. But in the end we were just two lonely people looking for some form of comfort."

"Miserable human—"

"Emotions." She finished for him looking over once more to take in his features. "God you two look so much alike, yet so completely different."

"Will you return to your world through the well?" He watched the shock of the statement wash away before she gave a sad smile.

"No, I can't go back anymore… It was a one way trip." She glanced into the depths and smiled happily this time. "I am writing all the things that happen to me down in a book, and when I am dying I am going to have Shippou go into the well and place it behind one of the rocks. I told my mother I would, it was probably there the whole time I was traveling and I didn't even know it."

"You wish for them to know how you lived." He turned as youki washed through the clearing and the wolf came to a stop at the edge. "I am bound by honor to offer you help as well as to see to the safety of the village my brother was responsible for."

"I don't need anything… come spring we are going to need a lot of building and I don't think you would help with that." She smiled standing before him once more. "Thank you for coming, I will see you later… I suppose." He nodded watching her bow. "Good Bye Lord Sesshomaru." She straightened and watched as he gave the smallest of nods in turn before disappearing. "Hello Kouga!" She called waving at him.

"Kagome, your aura when I felt it…" He pulled her into a tight embrace and let her cry once more. "I am sorry that I can't do anything to change it."

"Everyone feels pain Kouga…"

"Hai, I can attest to that, I lost Ayame not more than two months ago." Kagome pulled away with large eyes.

"What, but last I seen you two were happy and expecting…" It hit her like a ton of bricks then, further crushing her heart as he nodded hugging her once more. "Were the pups…"

"They were healthy, she bled out after they were delivered." He kept an arm around her as they turned to head for the village. "I have a female helping me with them, she lost her pup to the cold and she has been feeding the pups."

"Maybe I can come lend a hand for a few days, just to get me away from the village."

"That would be fun." He laughed as they felt Sesshomaru actually leave the area.

Later than night Kouga walked out into the woods to find Sesshomaru standing at the grave where InuYasha was put to rest. Even through the high branches of his once favorite perch InuYasha had a lovely view. The wolf stood beside the dog, their message silent.

"I will have her at my den for a while."

"Keep her there for at least three weeks." Sesshomaru looked to the Wolf Lord, who nodded and turned back to the village. "When you return, bring her to the well." Kouga left with a cocky smile, as Kagome slept he heard Sesshomaru bringing the materials into the clearing, and the demon workers.

First rewritten chapter!