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Ch.4: What's left?

She sensed him before he appeared. He walked across the clearing and stopped before her. He looked around, taking in his surroundings. He looked at her.

"What has happened here?" He said.

"Naraku has been killed." She had cried all her tears out. She now sat as if in a trance, not moving, staring straight ahead of her.

"Where are your missing comrades?"

"They lie at the bottom of that cliff."

"What of Inuyasha? Does he still live?" For some reason, he could not sense if his half-brother was alive or not. Perhaps the girl is shielding him somehow, he thought.

"He's dead. Everyone is dead."

She sat in front of him on the ground. Her eyes had lost their shine, and were now dull as the stones that scattered the area.

Sesshomaru looked down at Inuyasha. He knelt and laid a finger to his young brother's neck. He could not feel life in the body. He straightened and pulled out Tenseiga. As he watched his brother, he noticed that the sword did not pulse with its usual aura. It was then that he realized that he was too late, and Inuyasha's soul had already made its journey to the next world.

He looked back down at Kagome. He did not care for humans, but he had begun to respect the power that this one had. The human sitting in front of him was not the same. It was as if all life had left her, and all that was left was her body.

He pulled her to her feet. She did not fight him, as she would have at any other time. She stood there in front of him. He moved to guide her out of the clearing. He may not have liked his brother, but the laws of his people were that he was responsible for his brother's mate.

"No! We can't leave them...no" she cried. "Why can't I go with them?" She whispered.

"You will come with me, human." Sesshomaru stated.

"No! I can't leave them..." she sobbed, fresh tears streaming down her face. "What do I do? I can't leave them...just leave me here..." she said as she collapsed by Inuyasha. She caressed his face again, desperately hoping that by some miracle he would wake up. "Why can't we be together? Why can't I go with you?"

"They are dead, human. There is nothing you can do. You will accompany me to my castle in the West."

"Shut up! I'm not leaving them...they're all I have left...I have nothing if I don't have them, if I don't have Inu-" she cried as her voice caught.

In that moment she realized that they were really all gone and not coming back. They were lost to her forever. Silent tears rolled down her face.

"I have to bury them."

"Then do so."

"I need them to be close to me...if I go with you we must take them...I..." she stopped, sobs threatening to choke her again. "I need them close...I need them..." she hung her head. "Please." She whispered.

"Aun, come." In the sky the demon appeared and landed by its master. "Take their bodies home and place them in the garden." Sesshomaru said. He looked back at Kagome. "Come, human. It is time we left."

She looked around her, unable to move from this place. Full of death, yet precious, as it was the last place she had ever seen her friends alive.

He walked over to her. "I will not ask again, human."

She turned and looked at him. She had never thought about how much the two brothers had looked alike. Suddenly it was too painful a reminder of her lost love. She looked away quickly. She nodded, but was too exhausted and began to collapse. He caught her in his arms and looked down at her. Stupid human, he thought, and turned towards his home.