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Tears mingled with sweat on Kagome's face.
She dug a smaller hole in the ground this time, for Shippo. She dug it between Inuyasha's and Miroku's, so Shippo wouldn't have to be alone.
The request to come back and bury her friends had been something that Sesshomaru could have easily have ignored. But after a strange look that made Kagome feel as if he was examining her very soul, he had nodded and turned away.
Kagome hesitated. The holes were dug. The place where her friends would rest.
Kagome picked up Shippo's light form first. She kissed his cold cheek and told him that she loved him.
Kagome laid him in the hole.
Miroku was next. Kagome struggled, but after a minute or two, he was laying peacefully in his final resting place. Kagome smiled, in that sad way.
"You get to lie next to Sango, Miroku. Happy?"
She didn't expect an answer. She didn't get one.
Kagome was surprised how heavy Sango was. All those muscles. Kagome put Sango's Hiraikotsu on the demon slayer's stomach.
Sango had been like a sister to her.
Finally Kagome turned to Inuyasha. He could have been sleeping. But the dried blood on his face proved that this was not the case.
Kagome walked forward and wrapped her arms around him for the last time. She dragged him to his spot in the ground.
Panting slightly, Kagome picked up the Tetsusagia and placed it on Inuyasha's stomach.
There. Perfect. The tears came harder, and Kagome's vision was blurred as she buried her friends.
Rin watched as Kagome cried.
Kagome sat next to her friends' graves, sobbing gently.
"Come away from there, Rin."
Rin looked up at Sesshomaru, who had come to retrieve her. Rin hesitated as Sesshomaru began walking back towards camp.
"Lord Sesshomaru?"
He stopped walking. Rin bit her lip.
"Will Kagome ever get better?"
Sesshomaru did not answer her. It wasn't really a question that could be answered.