Kagome cried as Miroku came in with the news. Inu Yasha hadn't been found at the wreckage sight. There had been a pool of blood where she had last left him and then…. nothing. Sango and Miroku convinced her that it was best if she didn't go to the sight. Miroku said something about there being too many negative forces left over from the attack. The days passed by in a haze for Kagome. Every day she would get up and go to the window of her hut and stare out of it. She ate only when she had to and she never got outside to walk. It was as if she was a shell without Inu Yasha.
Sango came into the hut one day to find Kagome crying and scratching at the walls of the hut. She dropped her weapons and ran to her.
"Kagome, snap out of it. What happened?" Sango held Kagome tight as she rocked back and forth.
"I can't believe he's gone Sango. He can't be gone. He promised me! He said that he would be there with me!" Kagome clung on to Sango and rocked back and forth. Her hysterical crying subsided only when she passed out.
Sango left the hut and walked over to Miroku.
"She can't go on like this," she stated simply.
Miroku sighed. "We can't let her go back there. The powers left over from the fight are phenomenal. There's no way she would survive the impact of them." Miroku put his head down and sighed.
"Then go find a way to get the powers of that place down by tomorrow. I'm taking her there. She has to see for herself." Sango turned on her heal and walked away. Miroku called after her saying it was impossible but she ignored him. She may love him deep down, but he didn't know shit about how to help a friend.
The next day Sango went into the hut to find Kagome on the floor in a heap. Sango picked her up and carried her out the door.
"Sango," Kagome said in a small, defeated voice, "Where are we going?"
"To see the sight where you and Kikyou fought." Sango kept walking. After a half hour walk Sango put Kagome down on a rock.
"Open your eyes and see what happened." Kagome opened her eyes to the destruction of the place. Trees were still smoldering around her. The black ash of the place seemed to swirl around her. All over the ground there was white powder as if clay had been shredded into a fine dust and spread around. The battle wounds on ground were so fresh you could still hear the screaming and the fighting.
Kagome got up and walked around. There was a deep crater in the ground where she and Kikyou had stood in her last moments. Emotions started to stir up as she looked at the spot. Kagome turned her face as the memories came rushing back. As she turned her head she saw an odd looking spot off to the side. Kagome ran up to it and touched it. Blood, Inu Yasha's blood. Tears sprang into Kagome's eyes as she rubbed her bloodied fingers together.
Kagome walked off in a daze into the woods. Not knowing where she was going, only knowing that she had to get away from that place. Sango called out to her, but she didn't listen. All she could do is walk.
A couple of miles away from the site and Kagome broke down. The tears from the sight were released and it was all she could do to keep from puking. In the middle of her crying she heard a soft moan. Kagome froze. Was it another person out to capture her and take her baby? The moan came again. It was more of a moan of pain than anything else. Kagome followed the noise to a tall bunch of grass. When she parted the grass, Kagome gasped. There, in a pool of his own blood, was Inu Yasha.