Kagome was standing beside a large tree in the middle of the forest, the bundle still in her arms. Sakura and her husband watched the young woman bend her head down and kiss the small infant. It brought tears to the elder woman's eyes, to have to experience something so tragic at such a young age.

"I would like to place it here," she mumbled to the couple. The man nodded and brought out a digging tool, making a deep hole.

Sakura looked around and saw some blue flowers growing beside a bush, she hastily picked them.

Kagome could not bring herself to bend down to place the child in its grave. She didn't have the willpower. She didn't have the strength.

She dug her head into the bundle and let herself go. She felt a tear at her heart.

Sakura put her hand on her shoulder; she rubbed smooth circles on the girls back, trying in vain to sooth her. Kagome picked up her head and kissed the bundle one last time, finally kneeling down to place it in the grave.

Sakura handed the woman the flowers and Kagome gently placed them on top of the infant. Tamiya started to cover the hole again. Sakura was still tracing circles on the girls back, trying her hardest to ease the pain. She knew it wouldn't work.

Kagome wiped the tears away and turned away from the burial site. She was growing weary and tired. Her stomach was starting to hurt again.

"Can we go back?" she asked Sakura. The elder woman nodded and took the young mikos hand. Tamiya finished placing the dirt and followed the women back to the hut.

Kagome couldn't sleep, all her thoughts drifted to her lost child. She had cried and cried since the death of her baby, she didn't understand why all this had happened to her.

Then her mind drifted to darker places, why hadn't that bastard told her she was pregnant, he had to have known. He had been the one to seal the child's death warrant, and she would shove that in his face the next time she saw him. If she ever saw him again.

Kagome had grown to like the elder woman and her husband, they were exceedingly kind people. They didn't have to put up with her and they didn't have to help her that night when she was miscarrying either. They could have let her bleed to death. Perhaps they were doing it because Sesshomaru had told them to, she didn't know, but she was glad they were here.

She thought more and more about everything when finally her eyes drooped and she was in dream land.

Sesshomaru had been walking for what seemed like forever. He was very close to the village he had dropped her off at; he wondered how she was doing. Was she healing at all? He had done quite the number on her, and even he felt ashamed of himself for it. It was beneath him to ever hit a woman, even out of anger, and he had done it to her now multiple times.

What would his father think of him?

He glared and shook off that thought. Damn his father for not telling him something so important.

He didn't understand the methods on Inutaisho. Why had he copulated with a human, a fierce and powerful demon and yet his downfall had been a mortal. The thought was distasteful to him, and he couldn't help the little voice in the back of his mind, 'Sort of like Kagome?' his conscious asked him.

Sesshomaru shook his head as if to clear it. 'No, that woman is entirely different; I had to stay with her through obligation and obligation only.'

'You could have just killed her?' it asked him another annoying question. 'Ignoble, that's the way the half breed would have done it.' He growled at it, getting now highly irritated at himself.

The voice had died away at his growl and now he was left alone with the haunting thoughts. The woman was no longer his mate but he could feel a pull in her general direction. It irked him to no end, why had a human miko have such a great effect on his beast? Why had the whelps mother have such an effect on his father? He wanted answers but he feared the only way to get them was from the deceased dog demon himself.

Sighing, he continued on his trek.

Inuyasha sat beside the campfire staring into the embers; he watched the flames dance seeing only the face of his comrade.

Sango and Miroku were quite after they had told Inuyasha what had happened in the hut between Sesshomaru and Kagome.

He felt so awful, he couldn't protect her. He should have gone with her that night; if he had none of this would be happening right now. No one knew where Kagome was, he had smelled his brother a few days ago but his friend was not with him. Sango and Miroku held him back as he had tried to get to his brother to kill him.

"It will only bring pain to Kagome Inuyasha," Sango said to him sadly. "We must leave it, there's nothing we can do."

Inuyasha jerked from them, "So your best plan is to do nothing!" Sango's eyes darkened, "go on, put Kagome in danger AGAIN, and this time he will surely kill her. You didn't see him that night Inuyasha, there's something wrong with his whole beast mode."

Miroku nodded his head, "We can't charge blindly in and question Sesshomaru. He wouldn't answer anyway."

Inuyasha huffed and turned around, "Well we have to do something; I didn't smell her with him, so chances are she's somewhere else right? Somewhere safe?"

Sango put her hand on his shoulder, "It is disgraceful to kill your mate, and Sesshomaru won't kill her Inuyasha. But that doesn't mean he won't hurt her…."

He spun back around. "What does that mean?"

"It means exactly what I said Inuyasha," she whispered. "Sesshomaru is having trouble with his beast, it seems to me he's having a very hard time keeping control over himself. "

Inuyasha blanched at the thought of Sesshomaru's beast, it must be three times worse than his own, and kagome had to live with it. He looked back to his friends, "We have to save her."

Miroku snatched him by the shoulders, "We cannot Inuyasha, we cannot charge in and try to SAVE Kagome, we don't stand a chance against Sesshomaru. And what if he changes? We'll all die including her. No, we have to wait it out."

Inuyasha jerked back and hit Miroku in the jaw.

Sango shrieked and bent down to observe the damage made to his face. Miroku looked up eyes ablaze, "My friend, I tell you this now, if you go after her, we will not follow you. You can lead yourself to yours and her death but we will not shadow and watch."

Inuyasha stood and listened to the crying of the Kitsune as it watched the entire display.

Shippo missed Kagome dearly. At first he thought she wanted to go with Sesshomaru, but after listening to Sango and Miroku tell the story, he knew he had been dead wrong and the look on Kagome's face that night haunted him.

He watched as Inuyasha tried to reign in his emotions, as he watched the blood seep from Mirokus busted lip.

He dropped his head and covered his eyes with his bangs, "all of this is my fault, I didn't protect her." He then did something they didn't know he could do.

He cried.

It was heart wrenching to see someone so strong stand there and fall to pieces in front of you and Sango felt her lower lip tremble as she stood and reached for the broken half demon. "If she dies, I don't know how I'm going to live with myself."

Sango wrapped her arms around his frame, "She's strong Inuyasha, you know it's weird but I can still feel her, I can feel her energy. I know she's going to be alright."

Inuyasha got control of himself and contemplated her words. Yes, Kagome was stronger now, but in dealing with an out of control Taiyoukai, especially Sesshomaru he didn't know how she would overcome it.

Kagome awoke two days later with a splitting headache. Sakura and her husband were no longer in the hut, she looked outside the window, dawn was breaking.

'They must have gone to get food.'

Her hands instinctively ran down to her belly to where her child used to be. She felt no pain in her stomach anymore. She pulled off the covers to see no blood; she had completely stopped bleeding a few hours after the miscarriage.

Sakura had told her some things when they had gotten back to the hut as she was settling back into bed.

"Child, you're probably wondering why this happened?"

Kagome shook her head, "No, I know why it did."

Sakura shook her head again, "It isn't because of Lord Sesshomaru dear, well he certainly didn't help. But no, most human women have a hard time delivering a hanyou."

Kagome stared at her and she continued, "It's just sometimes too hard on the woman's body."

Kagome shook her head at the memory. She remembered back to Izayoi and wondered how she faired with Inuyashas birth, she knew she had died later on in his life so that means she lived through his birth.

Shaking her head she threw the blanket off of her and stood up. The warm air sent tingles up and down her skin.

Kagome wanted to walk around outside and visit her baby again.

She grabbed the blanket off the bed and left the hut.

Kagome remembered exactly where the grave was and trudged through the forest, it wasn't very far off.

When she finally got there she looked down at the small hole and felt tears well up again. She kneeled down and picked a flower placing it over the infants' grave. "I'm so sorry little one," she murmured through quivering lips. "I should have protected you…"

Sesshomaru could smell her, she was close now, and he smelled salt mixed in with her scent.

He was upon her now and saw that she was kneeling beside a small burial mound, a freshly made one.

Kagome could feel the presence of a youkai and she was not afraid at all, she didn't really care if it tore her to shreds, she already felt like she was in pieces.

Sesshomaru's eyes observed her; she was incredibly pale, he growled, 'those humans better be taking care of her.'

Kagome looked up to see a shadow beside the tree, a shadow with long hair.

She jumped up and glared at him. Sesshomaru was slightly shocked at her actions and how quickly she sensed him.

Kagome went over to him, "Come out Sesshomaru," she demanded, her voice never once unsteady. Sesshomaru stepped out, his eyes looking her over.

"Why do you kneel beside this grave Kagome?" he asked her. He watched as her eyes flashed and danced with the anger that rolled around inside the brown orbs. Why was she so irate?

"You killed it," she whispered, almost too where he couldn't hear her.

Sesshomaru inhaled, knowing what she was talking about.

'She had a miscarriage, your father didn't tell you.' The words crashed against his skull, and he knew what had happened to her after he had left.

"I did not know," he murmured. Kagome shrieked and lashed out at him, "Don't feed me your lies! You killed my child! You killed YOUR child!"

He watched as she slammed her small fists against him her tears falling freely onto her arms as she kept swinging.

"How could you do this to me! How could you take something like that away from me! You cold hearted despicable bastard!" Kagome slapped him across the face.

He didn't move from his spot, "Now do it, go ahead and lose control and kill me, I won't fight this time. I'd rather die than stand here and look at you."

The words stung, hit so deep that it took his breath away. The death had been his fault; this whole ordeal had been the result of him being weak. And now he had lost his child.

Kagome stood and watched him, preparing for the strike down, but it never came.

Sesshomaru shifted his eyes to her and unveiled emotions she had never seen. She gasped as she watched his golden orbs reflex what he was feeling. He did care.

Shutting her eyes, she grabbed his hand. His eyes whipped down to their joined fingers. " I don't know what's happening to you Sesshomaru, or why this happened to me but…I believe in fate."

Sesshomaru gulped at her words, she looked up at him and licked her lips.

"I honestly did not know Kagome," he said to her quietly.

She nodded, not sure if she fully believed him, "Why did you just leave me here?"

"I've been talking with Totosai," he told her. Kagome raised her eyebrow, "About Tenseiga."

Nodding again she turned around, "And, you said you no longer wanted to be my mate."

"Yes, we are no longer connected."

Kagome felt a blow to her heart and sniffed trying not to show it. He reached for her shoulder and moved her to face him. Her eyes didn't reach his; he knew what she was feeling.

He moved her chin to where she had to look at him. "I have to fix this; I do not wish to detriment you further."

Kagome's eyes widened and she felt a stirring in her heart. Before she knew what she was doing, she was standing on her toes to gently kiss his cheek.

He blanched at the contact, she seemed so frail, so warm, and he felt the stirring within him.

Kagome felt his tensing and jerked away, afraid.

"By the grace of Kami, I did not know about the child," his guilt fully hitting him. 'Gods, is this what his father went through?'

They stood there for what seemed like an eternity. Sesshomaru finally reached for her and stroked her hair.

"I might give you another?" he asked. Kagome knew what he was talking about and a blush stained her cheek.

He leaned down and chastely kissed her lips.

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