I'm afraid." She whispered to him softly. "What do you fear?" He asked her, looking into her eyes, his own soft. "I fear being alone, and forgotten."

What Sesshomaru wants Sesshomaru Gets. Kagome is going to find that out.

When Kagome made her strange request, Sesshoumaru had thought she was mad. But then he looked a little closer and realized, her mad request was the only thing likely to keep her sane in a situation vastly worse than the one she'd suffered during the hunt for Naraku's death. Neglect, it seems, can kill a person slowly.