(Adrian...This chapter may be confusion...sorry)

Ai launched at Kagome again but this time someone else stopped her. She could see Silver hair, white clothes. "Ses...sesshomaru?" She said. No answer came back at her but a voice did,

"Ai Calm Down!" Shouted the person in front of her. The voice wasn't cold, more concerned and that's when she knew it was Nanashi. Ai growled at Nanashi, baring her fangs and with her right claw she struck out at him. Nanashi leapt into the air to avoid being hit and landed some five feet away from the angry Mink. He was crouched down, leaning forward with one hand on the ground supporting him and the other firmly holding round the hilt of his sword. "Ai!" He growled up at her,

"I know that you are hurt and angry but attacking Kagome isn't going to do anything but get you killed. Do you understand me Ai? I will kill you if you don't stop this foolishness!" His words seemed to fall on deaf ears as she again attacked though her blows now seemed to be directed more at Nanashi than at Kagome, for that at least Nanashi was glad. He had no desire to harm her let alone kill her but he was running out of options. Just as she advanced on him, Nanashi leapt up again, soaring through the air as if he had wings. He looked so like his father as he moved, he drew his sword and plummeted downward, sword in hand just as Ai turned her massive head and lunged at him, mouth open. Nanashi let out a loud painful cry as the minks fangs sunk into his right shoulder and upper chest. With his left hand he had just enough leverage to drive the sword through her side. Ai let out a loud roar then fell over, the earth quivering around her as she hit. Nanashi removed the sword and tossed it aside then dropped to his knees beside her, he was losing large amounts of blood from the wound that she had inflicted on him but he dared not leave her side. Ai slowly transformed back into her original state, her eyes looking up at him imploringly, she was crying.

"I…I thought that you loved me." She said to him, her words barely audible.

"I do love you." Nanashi confessed, "I always have. I never meant to hurt you Ai; there is just no way that I can be with you. My father would have killed us both. I am a Nobel, a Lord and you are just a servant girl. It was never meant to be." But Ai did not hear these words, all that matter to her were the words I do love you…I do…She smiled and closed her eyes as she drifted off into a feverish sleep. Nanashi was there in her mind, she had not struck him nor he her and she was not laying in the courtyard now mortally injured. She was in his arms and happy, happier maybe than she had ever been. Sesshomaru had come and demanded that Nanashi leave his castle and that he take Ai with him. Oh, Nanashi would have argued and caused a fight in the natural world but in Ai's world he merely obeyed and picked up her weak and exhausted body and together they left. In Ai's world Kagome knew that she had no chance with Nanashi and she forgot her infatuation with him, in Ai's world everything was perfect.

"Now," She spoke to herself, "Now I can live as the princess that I have always dreamed of being. I can live in my own castle, with my own servants, vassals and ladies. I can be lavished with fine gems and laces and be admired by all. I will never again be Ai the servant I will be Ai the queen with Nanashi at my side as my King and we will rule over this land together." She sighed as Nanashi gripped her hand tightly; she was running free in a large field of wild flowers now, the grass felt so good beneath her bare feet. She was running towards Nanashi who held out his arms to her.

"I am coming my love!" She squealed happily, "I am coming!" But even as she said this, she saw that he was becoming farther and farther away. He spoke to her but she could no longer hear his words. The field was growing darker, a storm was coming. Ai could hear the thunder rolling in the distance. Back to reality, Nanashi looked up as he heard others approaching. He recognized the boots and the white fur of the long mantel that his father wore as Sesshomaru stepped up behind him.

"Father?" Nanashi looked into Sesshomaru's eyes, searching for a flicker of compassion in his sire. "Her wound is too great, she is dying isn't she?" Sesshomaru pulled the Tensaiga and held it above the girls head. Her body began to glow and almost at once Sesshomaru could see the servants of the netherworld come to claim her soul. "Yes." Sesshomaru said simply,

"they have already laid claim to her soul, she will be dead soon." Nanashi looked at him, imploringly.

"It's not too late though right? You can use grandfather's sword, save her. Please father, I don't want her blood on my hands." Sesshomaru seemed to consider this request for a moment then he simply withdrew the sword and re-sheathed it.

"Nanashi, you have brought this on yourself. In the future perhaps you will use better caution when choosing a mate." Nanashi glared at him suddenly,

"What!" He practically screamed. Kyo and Sani, who had arrived after Sesshomaru, cringed. "You're just going to let her die?" Nanashi rose to his feet, the wound in his shoulder was painful but he could handle it.

"You're going to stand there and do nothing and let her die? Answer me!" Sesshomaru glared at him suddenly and everyone could see the flare of anger in his eyes but Nanashi did not stand down.

"Impudent child! Do not forget to whom you speak! I am master of these lands and I will not be questioned or mocked. It was you who struck her down, you who inflicted the fatal blow and it is because of you that it has come to this. Do you think that I have a care for one lost servant when we have so many? What is she to me, you are fortunate that you intervened when you did for if your jilted lover had inflicted more than just a minor flesh wound upon my charge I would have killed her myself and you my son would have been next to feel the sting of my poison claws!" Nanashi stared at Sesshomaru in disbelief,

"You would kill you own son?" He asked, almost in a whimper. Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow, his face still twisted in an ugly scowl.

"Every day of your life you are in danger of being destroyed by me, and everyday I come up with another excuse not to do it. Those reasons are running out my son, continue to get in my way and you will join your mother and my father in the afterlife. You've been nothing but a disappointment to me anyway." Sesshomaru turned to Kagome and his face changed completely, it was softer now though his voice was still hard and cold.

"Go and have your wounds looked at. Rest if you need to, we can continue your training at some other time." In a flash he was gone again. Nanashi had slumped forward, his head hung in defeat as he stared at the ground.

"A disappointment." He whispered, the words stinging him like a scorpion. He looked briefly at Ai, her breathing had stopped and her head was slumped lifelessly to one side. Nanashi looked away then turned and walked past the small crowd that had gathered. He looked at Sani as he walked past him…

"Take care of the body." He told him, his voice wavering and on the verge of crying but also cold and emotionless. Sani nodded though he did not look at Nanashi, his eyes were fixed on the ground as well. What a dark day had befallen the castle and its occupants. Nanashi disappeared through the arched doorway of the castle but his aura remained, dark and hovering around all that were present for his last and final insult.

"Sesshomaru has destroyed him." Kyo said softly, speaking the words that everyone else was thinking.

"Hush." Sani said to him at once, "Accompany Kagome to the infirmary. I'll take care of Ai." Kyo nodded and did as he was instructed and walked Kagome to the infirmary where her wounds were cleaned and dressed. It wasn't a bad injury, one that would heal practically over night. Kyo escorted her back to her own chambers afterward and Kagome eased herself onto her large western style bed.

"Are you ok?" Kyo asked her.

"Yeah, I think so." Kagome told him. She sighed. She was still reeling from the fact that Ai was dead and that Nanashi was the one who had slain her.

"It's all my fault." She said suddenly. Kyo blinked,

"Huh? What do you mean?" Kagome laid on her uninjured side,

"All this, Ai…Nanashi…It's my entire fault, If I had never come here, If I had never found that stupid well…" Kyo shook his head

"Don't say that. You couldn't have known that this would happen. Nanashi has always been fickle when it came to women and well…Sesshomaru is just Sesshomaru. If you had never come here, to the feudal era I mean, you would never have met Inuyasha and the others. Don't let what has happened here today change how you feel about things, don't let it deter you from your goals. If you do, then you will end up like Nanashi or worse." Kagome sighed again and closed her eyes, Kyo's words made sense to her. She wasn't going to be deterred from her purpose, and that was to fight along side her father. But what before had seemed so simple to her now seemed so confusing. She no longer had the feelings for Nanashi as she did before. Her respect for him had diminished even though he had protected her. Her mind drifted now to Sesshomaru, old Lord Fluffy. Had he actually told Nanashi, his own son that he would have killed him if Ai had hurt her? It was all too overwhelming and the worst thing was that kagome suddenly realized that Sesshomaru was always there, always on her mind.

"Please no,' she thought to herself. 'Don't tell me I have feelings for Sesshomaru!' She had to clear her mind, maybe she could think of her training, anything but what she was already thinking. Think of training with Sani, she told herself, and as the images of him standing in the sun light holding his sword and giving her instructions filled her mind, Kagome seemed to relax some. It wasn't long before she dozed and Kyo quietly crept out of her room, in search of his own true love…

Savannah: Oh How sad...

Adrian: Yeah I know...

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