Inuyasha sighed as he saw kagome sitting on the hill. He had said a lot of things he didn't mean, but he was just so worried about her and the pup. He sat down beside her and pulled her into his arms. "Kagome? Im sorry. I didnt mean to say that stuff." Kagome sighed and kissed him. "I know. I wasn't very nice either. Im sorry i called you a baka." "Are you feeling better today? Still feeling sick?" "Im feeling sick, but not as bad as it has been." Kagome lied stubbornly. Inuyasha relaxed, not noticing her blushing from the lie. "Good. I guess if you want to keep going we can pack up and keep going today." Kagome nodded and got to her feet with inuyashas help. They returned to camp and packed up, starting to walk to the north again, the last place kagome had sensed a jewel shard before her powers faded. They had been walking all afternoon before a familiar smell reached inuyashas nose, and for some reason, kagome smelled it as well. She sniffed the air before inuyasha did and turned. "Sesshomaru?" Inuyasha looked in the direction she was gazing at, and looking sideways at her, wondering how she knew sesshomaru was on his way. No human should be able to notice that. He remembered the last meeting between them and sesshomaru.
kagome and rin were running from a fire demon, kagome trying to protect rin. Rin tripped over a tree root and fell. Kagome ran back to her and laid over her, shielding her as the demon breathed fire at them. The fire hit kagome and she screamed in pain as she was burned. Sesshomaru and inuyasha showed up as the fire hit her, and sesshomaru saw how she was protecting rin from harm. He and inuyasha teamed up to kill the demon. Inuyasha and sesshomaru ran over to them, and inuyasha gently removed the clothes on kagome, wincing at the damage that had been done. She was crying silently as the pain wracked her body. She had been burned from her shoulders down to her legs. Rin was unharmed. Sesshomaru had felt grateful to Kagome for protecting rin. "Why did you protect her instead of saving yourself?" He asked her. She looked up at him and replied through the tears, "I could never do that. If there's any way for me to save someone, i will do it. No matter what could happen to me." Sesshomaru nodded and said. "For saving rin, i am in your debt. I will no longer try to kill inuyasha." He picked up rin and walked away with her. They had returned to kaedes to treat the burns, but it still took two weeks to heal up most of the way.
Kagome remembered their last meeting as well, absentmindedly rubbing her scars that were still on her back. Sesshomaru stepped out of the trees with rin and jaken as well as ah and uhn. He looked around until he spotted kagome. "So. I heard my brother had finally chosen you as a mate. I also heard a rumor that you were with child." Kagome looked at him in shock for a moment before nodding. "I see. Then i believe it is time to give this to you." He pulled a robe out of a pack on ah and uhn. It was blood red with white flowers decorating it. "Father wanted inuyashas mate to have this when the time came. It is a fire rat robe. It will protect you from fire and poison as well. And it belonged to inuyashas mother." Kagome took the robe tenderly, running her hand over it gently. "Thank you, sesshomaru. By the way, im glad we are all friends now." Sesshomaru nodded. He turned to inuyasha. "Take care of her, inuyasha." Inuyasha nodded as sesshomaru and the others returned to the trees.