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Look at her. She looks so innocent when she's sleeping... Sesshomaru reached down and picked the child up. How can she stand to stay here? It would be better if she were with her own kind. With humans. Wouldn't it? No. It wouldn't. They shunned her. She's a loner, like me.

Just like Takimi...

God, but he did miss the child.

No. It's bad to think about him. About those times. And that wretch of a woman.

"WHAT WAS THAT FOR?" Inuyasha jumped to his feet, growling at Kagome. "I WAS MERELY TRYING TO GET THIS WOLF AWAY!"

"Inuyasha, Koga did nothing wro-"She was interrupted by Koga kissing her.

Inuyasha's eyes went wide.

"Kagome. Come back with me, and be my woman. Surely you realize that I can take better care of you then mutt-face over there. And I can promise you I'll never go behind your back to see another miko." He had slipped his arms around her. "What do you say?" (A/n: Runs from Inuyasha/Kagome fans.)

"Koga, I......" She looked over at Inuyasha. "You have a pack you need to protect. I would just be getting in your way." She shook her head gently. "I'm sorry, no. I wish to stay with Inuyasha."

"...." Koga turned away, frowning. "Alright. But if you change your mind, you know I'm always here."

"I know. Thank you." She turned back to Inuyasha, wrapping her arms around the pouting half demon.

Should I put her back with her own kind?

No.

Why should you do that? She's your human now. You found her, you saved her. And she reminds you of Takimi. Keep her.

Why?

Why? Do you need a reason? Look at the child! She's only a bit older then Takimi when he died. Keep her!

Alright! Fine!

Sesshomaru settled down next to the sleeping child he had arranged next to him.

He closed his eyes, reliving once more the nightmare of the night of Takimi's death.

Flash back begins.

"TAKIMI! TAKIMI WHERE ARE YOU?!" Sesshomaru shouted as he ran through the forest, franticly looking for the boy.

He paused, long enough to smell humans, but discarded the smell as normal, these were, after all, forests the humans were always lurking around, waiting for some wealthy fool to come riding by to kill and robbed.

"TAKIMI!!!!!! WHERE ARE YOU! TAKIMI!" Sesshomaru was screaming now, desperate for the boy to answer.

A woman screamed.

Sesshomaru whipped around as he heard the scream. "What the hell? It couldn't be.....Takimi!" He rushed towards the sound.

There was the child, hardly ten years old, being attacked by a horde of humans.

Filthy, blood thirsty, murdering, humans.

"TAKIMI!" He ran as fast as he could towards to boy. "GET AWAY FROM HIM!" Sesshomaru slashed three humans to shreds with one slash of his claws.

"Filthy mortal's!" He screamed in pure rage, killing another by snapping the bastard's neck.

It went on like this, slashing and snapping, whipping them to death.

By the time he got to the child, he was almost dead.

Sesshomaru kneeled down next to Takimi.

"Takimi..." He gently lifted the boy up. "Takimi....can you hear me?"

Takimi looked up at Sesshomaru, looking him right in the face. "D......d............da-.........They attacked......I was just chasing after a toad demon.......and they attacked. I tried to fend them off.......long enough for you to help.....but......so many.........sorry........" The life fled from Takimi's tiny body.

In a fit of rage, Sesshomaru had grabbed the nearest humans, dragging them back to his home.

He tortured them. Each in different ways, till they died begging for mercy as Takimi had begged for from them.

"Sesshomaru! Please! Stop!" A woman, a half breed, clutched at his sleeve. "Please.......Don't kill them. They did wrong, but please....please don't kill them. Takimi wouldn't want it. Please....do it for your child's memory.

Sesshomaru sank down onto his hands and knees. One hand came to strike at the ground, a deep hole forming where his fist had hit the ground.

He let the last human go. Why? Why should I let that bastard go? Because Takimi's mother, his mate, had begged him to? Fah! He shouldn't have let him go. But....Takimi hated violence of any kind, which is why he didn't fight back when those human's attacked and killed him.

Sesshomaru got up and left.

End of flash back