A/N: Okay, I've tried to type this out like, 9 times and my computer kept crashing on me so the author's note will be brief. Couldn't find a song I thought went with what I wanted to say, so this isn't a song fic. This is the last chapter and I hope I do it justice with what I have in mind. So, now, please enjoy, it's really short but, I really had no plan for this except getting across the whole deal with Sesshoumaru.
"He isn't coming back, is he?" Sango frowned ever so slightly as she looked towards Kaede. She, Kaede, Miroku, and the now sleeping Shippo.
Kaede was silent for a moment, before nodding. "Not this time...."
"He has the jewel shards..." Miroku muttered. "Not only have we lost Kagome, but we've lost the shards..." He shook his head and gave a deep sigh as he looked between the two women, then to the sleeping Kitsune who hadn't left Sango's arms since the funeral had begun, and had cried himself to sleep against his chest.
"And he'll complete it, don't you worry about that."Kaede stated, frowning. "Though it still isn't clear just what he's going to do once it's completed."
"He wouldn't use them to go full demon now, would he?" Sango bit her lip, but once more, Kaede was the voice of reason.
"No. Not after all that has happened."
As it always did, the hanyou's grief took a sinister turn, fueling his rage and his fury. It was with this thought that Inuyasha took a new turn on his hunt for the Shikon no Tama, slaying everything that dared cross his path, and even hunting down some of them that didn't. He was desperate to find Naraku and exact his revenge for what that beast had done to Kagome.
It was odd, he didn't think, that even if he had known of it's occurrence, he didn't think that he would have had this unsurpassable urge to get revenge, to erase the one who had caused his Kagome so much pain.
He laid silently on a low tree branch, as he slept so often before, wishing that he would just fall asleep already, that he would be plunged into the dark solace of sleep, though his mind was too tormented with the thoughts of what he should have done differently, of how he could have saved her in the end, all the while knowing, that when all was said and done, nothing would bring her back.
He leapt from the tree and ran blindly through the trees, trying to find anything to stop his thoughts, to try and find some peace away from himself.
The door opened soundlessly as he entered the room, looking down at her sleeping figure, giving a soft smile, though, it was hard to tell that eh was doing so, his icy features hardly changing at all, a slight upwards turn of his lips that would go unnoticed by most and a sorrowful look to his eyes was all that changed.
The girl continued to sleep soundlessly, the very picture of innocence and youth, seemingly untouched by all that she'd gone through.
He couldn't help but think back on the days events, his thoughts turned to his brother, feeling almost... pity? Sympathy? For him. Looking now upon the sleeping human, he wasn't sure just how he would be able to take it. Despite everything he tried and his supposed position about how he despised humans, the small child had grown on him, and even if he wouldn't admit it, he feared the thought of anything happening to her.
Humans, there was just something about them that made you appreciate them when you got to be around one for so long, maybe it was their frailty, or their mortality, whatever is was, it drew you in after awhile, putting you under their spell, like Kagome had done to Inuyasha, and now this little child was doing to him.
"Sweet dreams, Rin." He murmured softly as he turned, walking out of the room and silently shut the door once more. Rin's eyes opened slowly as she gave a sleepy little smile.
"Good night Sesshoumaru-sama."