And here's Chapter ten!

Finally…right?

I'm sorry it took so long to get up to you. I couldn't get the inspiration for the story until just now, and I'm not even sure it's perfect yet.

I'm at work right now so this chapter is going to be spread out over a period of time…

I really hope you enjoy it!

Last time…

Kagome wished Sesshomaru could be there to support her, but after a week of waiting for him, she had given up hope of having him come through. He obviously didn't care enough to be present for this.

She had cried herself to sleep the night before. She wouldn't have wanted to stay with her either if she were him. She felt selfish for even having asked him to come along. Her mother called her from the bottom of the stairs and urged her to get going. It was time to head over.

Kagome didn't know what to expect from this ordeal, and she didn't know where it would go after it was over, but she hoped she had made the right choice. With a sigh she urged her body down the stairs. Each step she took, she was a step closer to the operating table.

Sesshomaru didn't sleep. He refused to eat and he wouldn't even take a sip of water in the mornings. He was a complete wreck. Even with Rin and Shippou, he couldn't stand them for very long and would easily explode on them.

With Jaken, he couldn't even be near the toad demon without getting so irritated that he would toss him angrily across the room. Jaken, of course, found this as a promising sign of his master's eventual healing.

Sesshomaru stayed up every night to stair at the moon's rise and fall, wondering if, in her time, Kagome could see it too. Every night, as the moon rose to it's peek, a single tear slowly made it's way down his pale cheek.

He couldn't get through the well. He'd tried at least a hundred times, but it just wouldn't seem to let him in. Maybe she was supposed to go through this by herself?

It didn't seem right to him though. He was supposed to be there to help her, to protect her…to make her happy, and eventually to tell her he loved her. He knew he was missing one of the most important times in her life, and hoped that he could somehow help her, even if he wasn't there, to make it through.

Kagome went out. The procedure was unexpectedly long.

Kagome cried all day after her operation. It had hurt her more deeply than she had expected, both mentally AND physically. She was burning from pain and her head was throbbing in agony. Her tears didn't help her feel better physically, but she didn't know how else to comfort herself.

This was the first time she had ever been depressed. She had lost her baby, her FIRST baby, along with her first love. She felt him die inside of her as Inuyasha had died the night he had raped her.

Her eyes were red and she couldn't sleep. The first time she tried, sleep overtook her, but she had terrible nightmares about killing Inuyasha. She blindly aimed for a demon with a purification arrow and shot.

She heard a scream and when she got to the corpse, it was Inuyasha, lying face down on the ground. She felt Sesshomaru's hand on her, and all she could think about was the terror she felt towards Inuyasha, not the love she had for his brother.

By the time the morning came, her tears were almost running out. Only a small stream of liquid was constantly running down her face. Her mother was in at the crack of dawn to see how she was doing.

Kagome was curled in a ball at the top of her bed, nearest the corner of her room. Her mother rushed to her side and held her for a long time. Eventually Kagome fell into a deep sleep with only moderately frightening dreams.

When she woke up next, her mother wasn't there. She began shaking uncontrollably and raced down the stairs. Her mother was at the stove cooking wonderful smelling udon.

Her stomach grumbled in hunger, but she could barely get herself to eat. The steam wafted from the top of the udon, and eventually began do disappear as the soup cooled down.

Kagome had barely touched the soup at all, tears still trickling down her cheeks. Kagome stayed in bed for three days before doing anything more than going outside to the sacred tree… the one she met Inuyasha under.

Her fountain of tears finally dried up and she could no longer bring herself to cry. She met her friends down at the local Burger King and went through the long story with them. Of course…she pretended that it was in THIS era rather than…well, the past.

She knew that they would feel sorry for her, but she never knew that they would react so violently towards Inuyasha. She then made a small, ditch effort to describe Sesshomaru to them.

They were immediately entranced with the tall, prince-like man that had long silver hair soft as silk. Their first questions were, where did she meet him, how, when, why she ended up falling in love with him, and how in all the hells she ended up with him.

She couldn't quite answer them. It was all rather overwhelming. Her head suddenly began to hurt and the lights seemed to dim themselves to her eyes. The blackout was slow and painless, but she could see her friend's faces before she hit the floor.

Sesshomaru felt very guilty. It had been a year since his one true love had left. She was still not back, and he could STILL not get through the well. He sat by it's edge for hours a day and waited for her to arrive. He rarely left the spot.

His whole life from the first day she left was focused completely, solely on getting through the well. He didn't pay attention to anything else. When Kagome's friends came to see if he had found a way through, he would chat with them on and off, but he never spend time doing much more.

Sesshomaru as beginning to get fed up. The well had many newly-formed scratches on it and his talons were considerably shorter. He had knocked over some trees. He even spent some nights pacing Kaede's hut to see if she would come back in the dark.

He knew that the first place she would come was to Kaede's.

Inuyasha was long since dead. He had finally gotten fed up of the irritating hanyou following him around trying to get rid of him so he could claim Kagome. Sesshomaru had killed him in five minutes flat. When he was very angry, it wasn't hard to kill ANYTHING that stood in his way.

Kagome was HIS…or he THOUGHT she was anyway.

The days soon blurred together. The days turned into weeks, which eventually turned into months and years. Eight years he waited, twenty years, fifty years, one hundred years, five hundred years.

She was still no where he could find her. She never returned through the well to his time, and he was sure that by now, she was dead. Humans don't live very long really.

He tried to date Kagra for a while, but it ended up being a disaster. She was too controlling, too hot-headed. She couldn't stand that he was still in love with a human. A miko, yes, but a human nonetheless.

He ended up dumping her in less than a month, and never talking to her again. She was a complete pain in the ass, if you know what I mean.

Sesshomaru finally, after all of those hundreds of years, gave up on ever seeing her again. He lived solemnly throughout the years, isolated and barely ever going outside for anything.

Shippou was still alive as well. He was doing good for himself. He had married Rin and she converted to becoming a hanyou. They were still happily married with three kids of their own in a house as modern as anything else that happened around the era.

For Sesshomaru, none of this mattered. He didn't care about any amount of money or wealth he still had, he didn't care about rule, lovers, food. He didn't need to.

Without food, he could survive for a year. Without water, half a year. Without lovers, well that was an other story. He didn't want any lovers, no one to love but Rin and Shippou.

And Kagome.

That was Chapter ten!

What did you think?

Not too shabby for writing it at work, ne?

So, this is it. I can't think of anything else without spoiling the next chapter for you guys!

Ok, R&R so I know what you thought!

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