Kagome shut the door to the shrine behind her as she returned, slipping the strap of her bag up over her shoulder. "Alright. Mom, Souta, and Grandpa are still asleep. I left them a note in case. Let's go. Ar-..." Her voice trailed away and she blushed as Inuyasha crouched down and Sesshomaru extended a clawed hand, both offering to carry her through the well. "Um..."

"You are pregnant." Sesshomaru said coolly, grasping her wrist and swung her up into his arms.

"Stop jerkin her around like that." Inuyasha growled at him.

"Keep your mind on your own wench Inuyasha." Sesshomaru retorted tonelessly.

"Wait a moment! Are you calling me your wench!?" Kagome questioned, glaring at him.

"You are." Any reply Kagome was going to make was cut of when he leapt through the well.

She jumped in surprise, throwing arms about his neck and clung to him as they fell slowly through the liquid light. A flash of red caught her eye and she glanced over to see Inuyasha falling beside them, face set in a stony expression. They touched the bottom of the other side of the well and Inuyasha's feet barely brushed the ground before he sprang upwards, up and over the well's edge.

Sesshomaru followed and Kagome glanced around as they broke into the daylight. She sighed, she hadn't been expecting to see the feudal era again this soon. She had hopped she'd have the rest of her week and then her wedding. A nice peaceful vacation. Well all right, maybe not peaceful since it was Sesshomaru's first time in her time but at least a while with nothing magical or sacred jewel related. And now...now she was forcing her demon husband into saving the girlfriend of the man she use to love. A woman who had died and returned multiple times. Like the old myth about cats, she mused. Kagome pressed her face into Sesshomaru's shoulder. Nothing ever worked out right.

"Are you alright?" Kagome felt the rumble of Sesshomaru's voice where her cheek was laid against his chest and she smiled to herself and nodded. "When we get back you are going to rest."

She didn't argue with him, glancing up as they moved through the canopy of the forest and then, suddenly, the trees broke into a small clearing. Kagome turned her head hearing Inuyasha shout Kikyou's name and blinked at the priestess half collapsed beneath the sacred tree, her back braced against the trunk, eyes closed.

The trees canopy broke as Sesshomaru, following behind Inuyasha, jumped down from the treetops to the ground of a large clearing. The clearing around the sacred tree. Kagome blinked in surprise to see Kikyou half collapsed at the base of the tree, her eyes closed, back braced against the trunk. She turned her head as Inuyasha screamed the priestess' name then went to crouch beside her. Kikyou's eyes opened and she glanced at his face and then her gaze shifted and fell on Kagome shifting into one of bitter anger.

"You brought her here to watch me die." Her lips turned up in a self-mocking smirk. "How dare you."

"Kikyou..." Inuyasha started but Kagome cut him of.

"We won't let you die Kikyou." She said softly, stepping towards herself...herself in another life anyway. Strange how she could stand before herself and feel no kinship at all. Strange how this other her had such cold, hateful eyes. Would that change once Kikyou was alive again?

"Why?" Kikyou's voice was thick with badly hidden suspicious and unconcealed curiosity.

"Because.... because there are people who will be very sad if you died." Kagome said after a small moment's hesitation.

She smirked again. "I hope you are not expected my gratitude."

"Kikyou I hoped...that you and I could become friends."

"Strange." Kikyou said slowly almost echoing Kagome's earlier thoughts. "I wonder, was I ever this naïve."

"Inuyasha, quiet your wench." Sesshomaru said coolly from where he stood behind Kagome's shoulder. "Or this will be over before it starts."

"Sesshomaru." Kikyou went on before anyone else could reply. "The demon that despises humans but is now mated to one."

"Speaks the priestess with not heart." Sesshomaru turned away "Come Kagome. We're leaving."

Kagome turned to look at his retreating back. "Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru come back!" He didn't listen to her just kept on walk. Kagome curled her hands into fists "Sesshomaru sit." He turned and gave her a murderous hits, managing to hold out as the necklace flared but then, inevitably, slammed to the ground. She heard Inuyasha's strangled oath as he was pulled to the ground but ignored it.

"I'll have the baby right here Sesshomaru. Right here!"

"You will not." Sesshomaru growled.

"You said you would help!" Kagome retorted.

"You are defying your husband." Kikyou said from where she was watching Kagome with a wary expression.

Kagome turned back and smiled at her. "I'm keeping a promise. I promised I wouldn't let you die Kikyou. And I won't break it."

"You will pay for this wife." Sesshomaru said in his usual level tone and Kagome knew she probably would but she couldn't think about that now.

"Right on this spot." She repeated determinedly, crossing her arms across her chest.

Sesshomaru gave her a long look, then walked over slowly and it seemed for a moment he was going to fling her over his shoulder but her turned away and instead curled a clawed hand around the hilt of Tensaiga and slid the blade from it's sheath, the metal ringing softly as it cleared it's resting place.

Sesshomaru walked towards Kikyou and stood over her, the sword extended infront of him. The priestess eyed it a moment without expression then rested her head against the tree trunk again and glanced away towards the green shadows of the forest as if she were alone. Sesshomaru remained poised above her for some times, Tensaiga pointed at her heart then finally her sheathed it and stepped back.

"Nothing...nothing happened." Inuyasha said.

"I cannot bring her back." Sesshomaru said walking away from Kikyou.

"Why not!?" This time it was Kagome's worried tone.

"Because, she has no soul to return to her body."