Authors note!!!!!

Hi everyone! Maybe I should say this before I get in trouble! I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS! I am simply borrowing them for this story. This goes for all previous and future chapters also. Is she dead? Or is she not? Hmmmmmmmm....I guess you're just going to have to read and find out. Now on with the story!

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Previously on Inuyasha-

Miroku jumped down nimbly from the high branch. Her frantically ran over to Kagome's motionless for. She had landed partially on her back and partially on her side. Her head had been hit hard. Blood trickled down her forehead and from a small cut on her lip.

"Kagome? Kagome?!!! DAMN!"

Kagome did not respond to Miroku's calls and he was afraid to move her in fear of further injury. He gently picked up her wrist and felt for a pulse. There was none.

'I-is s-she....no, she c-can't be!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Inuyasha realized he was running in circles. He stopped and tried to calm himself down so he could sniff out Kagome. He quickly picked up her scent and went sprinting towards it.

He skidded into the clearing and took in the scene before him. Miroku was sitting in a fetal position a look of suppressed panic on his face. His gave slid over to kagome. He sank to his knees.

'No, NO!' he thought feverishly. 'This can't be happening!'

He crawled over to Miroku.

"What happened here?" inuyasha asked fearing the worst.

Miroku stared blankly at Kagome for a moment before speaking.

"I told her."

"And?"

"Sh-she fell from the tree. She was so high up and it happened so quickly, I couldn't catch her." Tears began to fall from his closed eyes.

"I'm sorry."

"Don't say that! She's not dead!"

Miroku nodded his head.

"She is dead, the child is not."

Inuyasha wanted to scream. He felt his insides tightening. He crawled over to her limp form and laid his ear down to her chest, searching for a heartbeat. There was none.

Inuyasha pounded the ground with his fists.

"NO! NOT NOW! GOD DAMNIT KAGOME COME BACK! WHY DO YOU ALWAYS LEAVE ME?!!!!"

Tears poured out of his amber orbs. Sobs racked his shoulders. All the happiness he felt with kagome, all the joy and delight he felt with her was gone. She had taken it with her.

Miroku placed a hand on his shoulder. Inuyasha continued to sob.

"Inuyasha, the child is still alive, it will stay that way until Kagome's body starts to decompose, I thought you should know."

Miroku spoke in a monotone. Kagome had so much promise, so much spirit he didn't understand how she could be dead. The information did not completely register in his mind. He just sat and stared and cried.

"KAGOME! COME BACK! PLEASE! DON"T LEAVE ME ALONE! I DON'T WANT TO BE ALONE AGAIN!"

Inuyasha buried his head in her bloody shirt, trying to breathe in her scent. Memories of the times they had spent together played silently in his head.

His ears flicked as he heard a faint heartbeat. He head snapped up. Kagome opened her eyes slowly.

"Inuyasha," she whispered, "I just wanted to say.." she paused, it hurt to speak, "I wanted to say I love you,"

With that her heartbeat faded and her life slipped out of her fingers.

"Kagome! KAGOME WAIT! I LOVE YOU TOO! COME BACK!"

Tears flowed even more heavily now. He was in such mental and emotional pain that he was unaware of a new presence.

"I-inuyasha,"

Miroku faltered. Inuyasha turned to see Sessomaru and Rin. Sessomaru stared icily at Kagome's limp form.

"So, you're wench died did she? I have come to claim the sword that is destined to be mine."

Inuyasha ignored him and continued to sob. Sessomaru stared more closely at Kagome. A light bulb clicked on above his head.

"So I see your wench was pregnant. It also seems that the child still lives."

Rin's eyes widened. She knelt down beside Kagome and placed a small hand delicately on her stomach.

"This child will have no mother. She may not have a father." Tears began to cascade down her cheeks, "I know what it's like not to have parents."

She squared her shoulders and tried to stop the tears. They just kept coming. She shook kagome's shoulder gently.

"You need to wake up, you have to!" Rin spoke in an urgent whisper. "Please wake up! PLEASE!"

Rin hung her head, her bangs shadowing her eyes.

"Rin, why do you want this woman to live? Why are you so upset?"

She spoke without looking up, "I lived without parents, and you have no idea how much it hurts. I want this child to live and have a mom. I don't want them to cry. I wan them to have what I don't."

Rin spoke with much more maturity then Sessomaru had ever heard, although it hurt him to see Rin cry, he did not visibly show it.

"You want this woman to live? Is that what you desire?"

Rin nodded and looked up with him. He knew she was remembering her mother. Sessomaru stepped forward and grew his sword.

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Kagome sat in a grassy meadow. Izumi sat across from her, smiling happily. She simply stared not saying anything, content with just Kagome's presence. Kagome watched as two white butterflies floated down to a flower and gently landed on it.

"The fragrance of the flowers, the play of shadows and light, the gleam on the grass-these are the keys to your innocence."

And as she spoke, a patch of grass shimmering in the sun reminded her if her child hood, and she was filled with a distant but familiar sense of peace. Izumi began to fade in front of kagome, she continued to smile.

"I'm glad I got to see you again."

The butterflies flew from the flower and fluttered through Izumi's fading image. They rose toward the trees, spiraling around each other, and disappearing among the branches of a sycamore. Kagome tilted her head back, above her vast fields of cirrus clouds rippled in the stratosphere. She sighed.

"I'm alone again, I wish inuyasha was here."

She fingered the chains that bound her to the ground.

"At least I got to tell him I loved him, oh well, who cares if he didn't love me back."

She snatched her fingers back as the chains sliced neatly. She looked up, but found she had closed her eyes.

'Funny, I don't remember closing my eyes, and why am I lying down?'

She opened her eyes and found herself face to face with inuyasha.

"Kagome? Are you....are you really back?"

"Of course she is filthy half breed; my sword has the power to resurrect the dead."

Kagome strained her head to see Sessomaru.

"You brought me back from the dead? But why?"

"I asked him to," said Rin cheerfully. "Fluffy is really nice once you get past the ego."

Kagome giggled "Fluffy?" she inquired, Kagome watched in shock as Sessomaru actually blushed. She tried to contain her laughter, but she couldn't. The chortles tumbled out of her mouth and she doubled over in a fit. Sessomaru growled.

"Let's go Rin, inuyasha, I'll be back." Kagome realized she wasn't injured any longer.

"THANK YOU FLUFFY!"

She erupted in another fit of giggles. She suddenly was being crushed by a pair of strong arms. She felt inuyasha's tears as they fell from his eyes.

"Kagome, I had lost you, I couldn't do anything. If Sessomaru hadn't of come along, I wouldn't know what I would do. I so glad you're alive!"

Kagome pushed inuyasha away; he stared at her, hurt clear in his eyes. She gasped for air.

"Sorry inuyasha, I couldn't breathe, plus you don't want to crush your child do you?"

She smiled at him.

"Miroku told me."

She flung herself on inuyasha and hugged him fiercely.

"I couldn't be happier."

Inuyasha grinned, neither could he.

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Authors note!

I'll write another chapter to wrap things up, don't worry! Anyway, I hope you'll review! I would appreciate it! I don't know how to end this! AHHHHHHHHHH! I'M PANICING!

Here's a little something from me to you!

"Solitude"

How many times have you told me you love her

As many times as I've wanted to tell you the truth

How long have I stood here beside you

I live through you

You looked through me

Ooh, Solitude,

Still with me is only you

Ooh, Solitude,

I can't stay away from you

How many times have I done this to myself

How long will it take before I see

When will this hole in my heart be mended

Who now is left alone but me

Ooh, Solitude,

Forever me and forever you

Ooh, Solitude,

Only you, only true

Everyone leaves me stranded

Forgotten, abandoned, left behind

I can't stay here another night

Your secret admirer

Who could it be

Ooh, Can't you see

All along it was me

How can you be so blind

As to see right through me

And Ooh, Solitude,

Still with me is only you

Ooh, Solitude,

I can't stay away from you

Ooh, Solitude,

Forever me and forever you

Ooh, Solitude,

Only you, only true

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