Chapter 6: Reuniting Them and Keeping a Promise

Kagome pulled herself out of the well. She stood confidently but confused at the edge of the well. Then she smelled it.

Blood.

She looked at the well and on the edges was fresh blood. She was back in the feudal era. This blood she smelled was Kikyo's. Her brows furrowed she had to deal with that walking clay pot. She looked into the well something was off about it. She concentrated. Her moons glowed and there was a bright flash that came from the well. Just as she thought Kikyo put a spell on it. She turned to go deal with Kikyo and a firm kick to her belly reminded her once again of the babe she carried.

'I'll deal with her later.' She thought. As she turned to walk away there stood the beginning to all her problems, Kikyo. She stood hand in hand with Inuyasha.

"Kagome, is that you?" Inuyasha asked. Wow she looked different. Her hair was longer and shinier and she had ears like Sesshomaru. In place of her nails were claws and she looked…bigger around the waist.

"I just saw you what happened to you?" he asked. Then it snapped in Kagome's head

The well must have returned her to just after she jumped in the first time.

"A lot has happened Inuyasha. But I'm not in the mood to discuss it right this moment. I need to find a cave of some sort." Her instincts told her to find a den so when she gave birth her young would be safe.

"Kagome, Kikyo came to me and brought something to my attention-" Inuyasha started but was silenced when kagome held up her hand.

"Save it I heard to whole conversation between you two. Have fun together. But if I didn't belong here the well would have never allowed me back." Kagome turned to walk away and froze when she heard Kikyo's voice.

"You don't belong here kagome. Go home to your own time!" Kikyo shouted from across the clearing. She was holding and arrow ready to fire at kagome. Kagome took out a hidden blade. She started chanting when she was done with her spell she turned around.

"Fire it. See what happens. I dare you." she glared at Kikyo. Kikyo let the arrow fly just as Inuyasha reached over to stop her. Kagome flipped over the arrow and threw her dagger straight and true. If Kikyo would have had a heart it would have pierced it. Kagome's dagger stuck out of where her heart should have been. Kikyo let out a yelp and kagome turned to walk away. Kikyo fell back and Inuyasha caught her.

Inuyasha watched as the life seemingly drained from Kikyo's eyes. He put her down. He laid her across the earth and he stared evilly at the direction kagome went. Kagome walked until she came upon a familiar aura. It was lightly to the east of where she was walking. She smiled to herself. She missed her friends. So she would pay them a visit. She ran to the village. Before she could get close to Kaede's hut a very angry hanyou stood in her path. She took her battle stance. The child in her kicked and she smiled he knew what she was doing. When Inuyasha tried to lunge for her she jumped up.

"Sit!" she said he did a face plant beneath her feet. When she landed on him she used the pressure point in his neck and put him to sleep. She got off him and grabbed his ankle. With her demon strength she could easily pull him the rest of the way to the hut.

She dropped his ankle just before she walked into the hut. Sango and Miroku looked up and so did shippo. As dark in the hut as it was it just looked like a demon waltzed right into the hut. Miroku threw some sutras at her. Her moons glowed and put up a barrier around her and the child. Sango went to throw her weapon at her but kagome caught it while it was still in her grasp and threw Sango and her weapon outside. She then grabbed Miroku by the front of his robes and did the same to him. She looked down at shippo and smiled and waved. He did the same to her. He jumped up on her shoulder and she walked outside. In the light they saw who it was they were attacking.

"Kagome?" Sango said surprised. She smiled. Sango hadn't changed a bit.

"Hey guys." She waved.

"Kagome what happened to you?" Miroku asked.

"A lot of things happened much of it I don't feel like talking about. How are you guys?" she said cheerfully sitting down with shippo in her lap.

"We are just fine. Sorry about attacking you." Sango said.

"It's no biggie, any way you guys could never hurt me. I knew how dark it was in there. Little shippo only knew it was me when I walked in because of his nose." Kagome took Shippo's nose and wiggled it back and forth in her hand. He laughed and swatted her hand away. Then shippo froze. Something smelled funny about kagome. He turned to her belly and sniffed.

"Kagome why do you smell funny?" he asked her looking up at her. Kagome sighed. She really didn't want to talk about it but seeing as shippo asked she might as well. So she went into detail about this last year and a half that went by 500 years ago.

"Well when I got back I got a good look at the well. Kikyo put a spell on it. So I removed the spell and when I tried to return back here to the hut Kikyo attacked me." Kagome said finally finishing.

Inuyasha started to stir from his sleep. When he came too he started yelling.

"What the hell kagome! You did need to kill her she was just concerned for your safety." Inuyasha said.

"No she wasn't when I was across the clearing I could smell Naraku all over her. How it got past your nose I'm not sure." Kagome said not even looking at him.

"She told me why she fought with him just before she met up with us."

"Ok well that's an obvious lie." Kagome then turned to him looking him in the eye. "Tell me if it was a fight then why was the main source of the smell coming from in between her legs? Tell me you're not that naive Inuyasha." Kagome had a hurt expression on her face. She didn't like pointing out the obvious to her friends especially when it hurt them. But when the threat was greater than their feelings she had to do it for the better. Inuyasha dropped his angry look and his ears drooped. He knew better he just really wanted to believe her.

"You still didn't have to kill her." He said. He turned to walk away.

"She's not dead Inuyasha, she's no longer the walking dead though either." Kagome said standing up. Inuyasha stopped in his tracks.

"What do you mean?" he said.

"Go and look for her you will see what I mean." She said turning back to her other friends. Inuyasha took off running to where he left Kikyo. Kagome looked to everyone.

"I will help restore the jewel but first I need to take care of something a little close to me." She said rubbing her belly. Every one smiled they knew kagome would make a great mother.

"Sango what can you tell me about demon pregnancies?" kagome asked.

"Depends, what kind of demon did you turn into?"

"Oh it was just my body that changed. I still have holy powers though I'm half afraid to use them due to the baby being half demon or is it full demon?" kagome said wondering.

"Well you said it was Inutaisho's right? A normal Dog demoness carries for about three months before giving birth." Sango said.

Then it occurred to her she left her yellow bag at the castle 500 years ago. Well add that to the 'to do' list.

Step 1. Find a cave that's safe for my baby and I to live in for a while.

Step 2. Finish the jewel

Step 3. Go and get my bag without running into…

Kagome paused. She really didn't even want to think about saying his name, much less say it in her head. She was still deeply hurt. He left her to mourn for him for five months which lead her to the rash decision to have a child by his father so they could keep the west. Now that she thought about it not a lot changed in the feudal era.

"Well guys I really need to find me a cave to make into a home. Your all more than welcome to come with me." She said getting up. Miroku and Sango looked to each other and nodded their heads. They stood up as well ready to follow her where ever she went.

Deep in the forest only moments after Inuyasha left her body on the ground…

Kikyo gasped for air. She was…breathing? How was that possible? She was dead. Kagome threw a knife at her. She reached up the where the knife had pierced only to find it gone. Then she felt it.

Thump, thump….thump, thump

Her heart had returned to her. She felt a rush of liquids run throughout her body in her arms in her legs and down all the way to her toes, it was her blood. She felt everything, the sensation of breathing, the feeling of the grass in between her toes, the bark that her hand was up against.

She must have returned my life to me.

Kikyo smiled to herself she was going to repay kagome someday but right now she had a spider to kill. Kikyo hid her aura and smell and walked off to finish her duty.

When Inuyasha returned to where he left Kikyo she was gone. He looked all over for her but he couldn't pick up her scent. He sighed to himself. She had run off to fight this fight on her own. Inuyasha turned heel and went back to kagome.

Kagome was walking when a certain hanyou simply appeared right next to her silently walking. She smiled he knew she was speaking the truth. At last they could have their chance. Inuyasha and Kikyo could be happy. That thought alone made her happy.

She missed these days walking around with her friends hunting for the jewel shards. She decided right then and there as soon as she had given birth she would take her son or daughter to her mother and fight the final battle. Sometime after sunset they found a cozy little cave. Kagome used her moons to build a fire pit seeing as she shouldn't be lifting anything. Shippo went to get water, Sango stayed by her side, Miroku went to get wood and Inuyasha went hunting seeing as she didn't have her yellow bag any more. While she was sitting on a fallen log she was laughing to herself when she felt two jewel shards coming close to her.

Ugh… its Koga.

Kagome sighed and stood up ready to meet a small whirlwind appeared and dissipated in front of her Koga appeared. The first attempt he tried to grab her hand he met a barrier that shocked him.

"What the hay kagome? Whats with the barrier?" he asked grabbing his throbbing hand.

"I no long like being touched Koga. I need your jewel shards so I can lure Naraku here and destroy him." she said her voice emotionless as Sesshomaru.

"Um ok?" Koga said he took out his shards and handed them to her.

"How is my woman doing any way?" he said crossing his arms.

"I'm still not your woman Koga, but I'm doing just fine." She bent over to put the shards in a container. She then fed the contained her aura to block off the feeling of the shards until she was ready to face him. When she got back up she turned to her side and Koga got a good look at her. His jaw dropped.

"Kagome, your PREGNANT? Who is the father?"

"I'd rather not discuss it and before you ask no its not Inuyasha's." she said quickly trying to beat him to the punch.

"It's not Sesshomaru's is it?" Koga asked. She froze, how she wanted to say yes to that question but she knew it wasn't true. She covered her stomach protectively. She could still remember the night she was bound to the house of the moon. While it was true Sesshomaru was not an experienced lover she enjoyed every second of it.

While Inutaisho did his best to make her feel great while making the baby it just wasn't Sesshomaru's touches. Inutaisho was no slob in bed by any means he got her body to twist in so many ways than Sesshomaru did but…it just didn't feel right.

"No…no its not unfortunately. I feel ill all of a sudden I'm lying down please don't disturb me." She disappeared in the back of the cave. As far back as she could place herself. She knew she was safe. She knew she was not in harm's way but every time someone mentioned his name it was like taking a knife to her heart. What Koga just asked was like taking the knife and twisting it as you pulled out.

It hurt knowing Sesshomaru hated her.

She loved him with all her heart and mourned for him for five months. Every day he was gone she found herself thinking of him. Even before she thought he was dead. She was going to accept his offer to be his mate. She was that dedicated to him. She only offered to give the west and heir so taisho and Kimi weren't forced to sleep together and so they didn't lose the throne. She curled herself into a ball as tight as she could get without hurting her unborn babe. She wouldn't cry just yet but she would soon. She could feel where Sesshomaru was and he knew she had come back. When she reentered the feudal era he flared out a warning to her to stay away. It must have been because of her mark why she could feel him. She put her hand on her chest. She could remember the one night in the gardens when he asked her to be his.

Flash back

Kagome went laughing into the gardens with Sesshomaru hot on her heels. He caught her and they went tumbling into the grass right beneath the sakura tree.

"You have a nasty habit of putting me on my back right in this spot you know that?" kagome laughed out. He scooted off her and let her lay and her belly beneath him. He leaned on her back partially. She nudged her head under his chin and rubbed it there. It was sign of submission. He let out a low growl and turned her over. He gave her a passion filled kiss and began kissing and nipping her neck.

"Kagome be my mate?" he asked her lifting his head up nose to nose with hers. She looked at him.

"Why would you want me?" she asked.

"Because in all my 543 years I have never felt this way about any one." He brushed her hair out of her face.

"I'm not sure is that's a really big step." She said.

"Then let me court you it gives you plenty of time to think on It." he placed her hand on his heart and he did the same over hers. Their hearts were beating the same rhythm at the same time. He kissed her he wanted to make love to her right there. He began undressing her.

END FLASHBACK

She began drifting off to sleep remembering all the times they made love or just layed in his bed naked gazing into each other's eyes all night.

Sesshomaru felt her exit this world and reenter it. If he had known that she would go back to the past like that and cause all that she did he would have sliced her up in a heartbeat the first time he saw her. She was the true cause of his father's death. If she would have stayed the council would have never had made Inutaisho sleep with Izioy and he never would have battled Ryoukutsei. His father searched for three hundred years for kagome only to find out she was kidnapped by the southern lord's eldest son. When he couldn't find kagome with Ryoukutsei he hunted him thinking he had killed her and his unborn pup. Causing them to fight on the night Inuyasha was born. It was also the other reason he refused to leave Izioy's side the entire pregnancy and needed to be there for the birth. Izioy was spirited away some time during the last month by the minor southern lord who was killed by his head general.

All of that just because you spread your legs like a whore kagome. For now honor binds me to you to defend my father's pup. After the birth though your life is mine.

Sesshomaru could feel her whereabouts. When he stopped for camp he left for a while. He needed to clear his head.

His thoughts were swimming with every night he spent with her. Her moans of pleasure her throws of passion. When he remembered the night he asked her to be his he put his hand on his chest. He wondered if they still beat as one. He looked to the moon. He had to see her if only to tell her of her fate. He had to see her to smell her, to hear her voice. Anything to get him to stop thinking about her. He flew the entire night to get to where her cave was. There she stood in all her glory hand over her chest staring at the moon.