He turned at the sudden call, obviously surprised to see them there.
"I'm coming to get Kagome." Sesshoumaru told him blankly.

"You won't lay a hand on her!" Inuyasha yelled as he pulled out the transformed Tetsusaiga.

"I didn't come here to fight you Inuyasha." Sesshoumaru told him softly.

"What, did you just think you could come here, take her, and watch us sit around!?" Inuyasha told him furiously.

"I didn't expect you to be here at all. But if it's a fight you want little brother, it is a fight you will get." He said, standing up to his full height.

Inuyasha charged at him with the sword, and Sesshoumaru easily dodged this. Sesshoumaru ran for war using a poison claw attack which hit Inuyasha on the chest. Inuyasha screamed with the pain of the poison flooding his body.

Suddenly, there was a bright blue glow from the well. Sesshoumaru's head turned to look.

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Kagome crawled out of the well and assessed the scene. Sesshoumaru was standing only a few feet away from the well with a sword drawn, and he looked at her. 'Finally! Sesshoumaru came for me! I love him.' She thought as she climbed out of the well. He began to walk to her, but out of the corner of her eye she saw Inuyasha running at him with the Tetsusaiga.

Kagome saw what he was doing before Sesshoumaru. It was as if everything went in slow motion. Inuyasha seemed to be charging at the speed of a snail, and Sesshoumaru's head was smiling at her as he held out his arms.

Kagome tried to yell to him, but it was as if she couldn't speak, or Sesshoumaru couldn't hear her. So she ran. Ran faster than she had ever run in her life. Inuyasha was getting so close now, the sword was singing through the air.

But she reached Sesshoumaru and pushed him to the side as she jumped in front. And Inuyasha saw this too, but he was already in mid-swing and there was no way he could stop himself.

He seemed to scream in slow motion too, she could hear both brothers yelling her name, telling her to move. But she couldn't move any more than she could stop loving Sesshoumaru. So she stood there and waited for the blow. She wouldn't let Sesshoumaru die.

Then the world sped up again and all Kagome heard was,

"Slice." And there was no pain, only that slice sound coming from her chest. She didn't even feel it, but she felt the warm blood running down her skin, for it would not stain the dress.

She heard voices, so many voices. Two men screaming, and old woman and a young girl crying, a monk running and yelling. A little kitsune crying. And people surrounded her as she started to go numb. Then there were flashes of people's faces, them smiling, crying. She saw herself in a swing, eating ramen, taking a test, her family, her friends. She saw herself telling Inuyasha to sit, and Sango and her throwing stones at a monk when they were trying to bathe. 'Is this my life?' She kept thinking.

But the last things her eyes saw was Sesshoumaru. His rare smiles, his hands. She saw him sleeping, meditating, talking, flying. She made a wish in her last thoughts, a wish that she could be with him forever.

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"Y-you. . . killed. . . h-her." Sesshoumaru stammered out.

"You bastard. You pushed her in front of you, you'll pay with your soul for this." Inuyasha said, only able to stare at Kagome's lifeless face.

"Stand back." Sesshoumaru told him. Inuyasha wasn't about to let him take her body.

"Do you want her back or not!?" Sesshoumaru yelled with unexpected rage. Inuyasha stood back only a small step, not fully understanding what he meant. But he took out his sword and waved it over her body.