Kagome held the baby in her arms, looking down at it as she was lost in thought. Was this what it would feel like to hold her own child? She pulled herself back to reality and handed sango her child with a smile. "What are you going to call him?" Kagome asked as sango made sure the little boys windtunnel was secure. Sango looked down at him and thought for a moment. "I want to call him Niho. After mirokus father." She whispered as she held him close. Kagome looked down at the child, her gaze going once again to the childs inherited curse. She came to a decision. She would kill naraku herself and make sure that Niho and miroku would never have to worry about the kaazana again. She stood up suddenly, looking out into the distance as she stood, torn between seeing inuyasha one last time, or avoiding the heartache and going immediately after naraku. Sango looked up at her, noticing her distraction. "Kagome, whats wrong?" She asked as she sat up with the child, her eyebrows raised in worry. Kagome backed away slowly. "Im so sorry sango. I have to go. Before inuyasha gets here with miroku. They are already almost here. They followed your blood scent." Sango held out her hand, reaching for kagome. "Kagome..." she whispered softly, "please...don't go..." kagomes eyes filled with tears. "Im sorry sango. I have to." Sango looked into kagomes eyes, the realization hitting her suddenly. "Kagome...are you? Is that how you knew so much about childbirth?" Kagome continued to back away, her eyes still meeting sangos. "Please...tell him goodbye for me..." Kagome whispered as she tore her eyes away, turning and running as fast as she could into the forest.
Sango let her hand drop as she watched her sister dissapear into the trees. Her eyes welled up with tears as she realized what kagome was planning to do. "Oh kagome..." she whispered to herself, "please...dont do this...not for me..." suddenly, she could her someone running towards her, and she looked up as inuyasha came into view with miroku at his heels, panting and out of breath. Miroku finally caught his breath and looked up, pausing as he saw the child in sangos arms. He approached nervously as he sat next to her. Sango looked into his eyes as she handed him the child. "Miroku...meet Niho...your son..." mirokus eyes filled with tears as he placed a kiss on sangos forehead and he looked down at his child. Sango looked up at inuyasha as he looked around the forest. "Shes gone inuyasha." Sango whispered, her eyes filling with tears again. Inuyasha looked at sango as sango tried to hold back her tears. "She...she left a few minutes ago...and i think i know what she is planning..." Inuyasha waited impatiently for sango to finish talking. Sango took a breath and continued, "she went after naraku, inuyasha. I think she is planning to sacrifice herself to destroy him." Inuyasha growled in anger as he sniffed the air, searching for kagomes scent. Sango spoke up, "she might not have the same scent inuyasha. She...she is with child..." Inuyashas eyes widened as he looked at sango. He finally whispered hoarsely, "how...how do you know?" Sango shook her head, "she had gotten bigger, and she had been learning about childbirth. She kept rubbing her belly when she thought i wasn't looking. Please inuyasha, go stop her from doing whatever it is she is planning on doing." Inuyasha nodded, panic striking his heart as he searched for her scent once again. He suddenly stopped as he smelled something like kagomes scent, but it was mixed with a combination of his own scent and kagomes scent blended together. He almost lost it in front of the others, but he pushed back his tears and took off at a run, going after his mate. He didn't care anymore about becoming a human to be safer, he just wanted kagome back. He would do anything to make her happy, and if that meant remaining the way he was, he would do it for her. At least as a hanyou, he could protect her. His eyes narrowed as he thought of something sango had said. What was kagome planning to do to destroy naraku that would kill her as well?