Alright here's the next chapter to my story, which I'm planning to have up for a bit cause this story has tons of twists and plots, so get comfortable, cause not even I know whats going to happen! Thanx for the reviews for those who sent them, I appreciate it! Anywayz, enough of me...

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Chapter 2

Kagome looked up at the house she had abandoned for so many days and wished for, for so many nights. Her breathing was ragged, and her chest was begging for air, but ignoring it she made her way to the side entrance which opened into the living room. Reaching for the knob she held her breath.

'How are they going to react? What will my mother say? Will they turn their backs to me, as I have done to them so many times? Souta? Grandpa? Mother? I have failed you all, but now I beg for your forgiveness. Please don't leave me…I've already been abandoned…I don't want to lose more loved ones…' Kagome's thoughts were broken by a pain-filled cry. Worried, she opened the door and stepped into the dark living room. Her once colorful and lively home was now cloaked with shadow and only whispers of what once was here. Troubled, Kagome made her way to the kitchen, noticing how very quiet it was besides the low moans coming from the kitchen. Sliding the door open, she stepped into the gray kitchen cautiously looking around.

"Mother?" Her voice was calm but her eyes showed differently as they caught sight of the broken frame of what she believed to be her mother. A clatter of dishes echoed throughout the house as her mother turned and for once in 2 weeks her eyes could see the daughter she thought she had lost. Not daring to take a breath in fear that this dream would end too soon, she gazed at the young woman before her, waist length hair darker than the blackest night, face now touched by light color on her cheeks, tall and graceful, her body was toned and slender, but those eyes, the eyes of her little baby, those had changed most of all, they had turned cold and the dancing light she had been greeted by every morning was now gone from her beautiful blue eyes

"Kagome?" A whisper so low she wasn't sure if Kagome had heard it, her breathing became heavy when Kagome smiled in response. Her mother whimpered noticing that her smile had too been changed. Kagome's breath caught in her throat as she set her eyes on the face of the woman she remembered to be strong, always passionate about life, and never letting her face falter from her usual bright smile. This woman wasn't even the shadow of what her mother was, her face was streaked with dry tears, and new ones were setting new trails along her face, her body was stooped and seemed as if exhausted and her arms were shaking under the black sweater she was wearing, but what Kagome couldn't handle was the look in this woman's face. Her eyes were red and puffy, meaning she must have been crying for quite some time, but even behind that they held a look of complete despair, pain that was consuming her from the inside and tearing her away on the outside, her eyes were of a woman broken to the point of being unfixable and Kagome broke down and cried at the feet of her mother, who was now a mere phantom of her hero.

Kagome felt a hand cautiously place itself upon her bent head as she let tears flow heavily down her face. Looking up with blurry eyes she made out the movement of her mothers lips as they pulled into a sincere smile, but not of happiness but of relief, of what though she did not know. Heart broken she dared not smile back in fear that if she even so much as moved her mouth she would yell out in pain. Her mother dropped to her knees and looked into her daughter's face, eyes searching for an answer Kagome wasn't sure she could give. After an infinity of silence, the old woman spoke out in a cracked whisper.

"My baby." Kagome let her years of pain break out of her as she spilled out her heart crying into her mother's arms, letting her hold her, soothing her with an embrace she had been dying to give to her daughter. "Kagome, why did you leave?" Kagome hiccupped trying to understand her question. Noticing her mother's embrace had gotten tighter; she felt her heartbeat pound in her chest, hearing it as she was pressed against it.

"The same reason I left all those other times. For the Sacred Jewel." Kagome whispered the only response she could think of to please her mother. But it didn't and again her mother asked.

"Why?" Reluctantly, Kagome moved away from her mother's arms and looked into her face asking her with her eyes. Kagome's mother was looking for an answer she knew her daughter had but didn't know she could say.

"Mom I don't understand." She searched in her mother's face what she had really asked.

"Why did you leave when you knew he wasn't for you?" Kagome stared with a shocked expression into the eyes of her mother. The question had hit her where it hurt the most, and the wound had opened to a screaming point as Kagome realized that her mother knew.

Lord Sesshoumaru walked with ease over every inferior demon that quaked at his feet. He had been "ambushed" by desperate demons in search of power, but with a quick glare, they had dropped at his feet and began groveling for forgiveness. Unworthy of his time, he just stepped over them and began his journey again. About to head out of the forest he was in, a sudden wind caught his attention. A slight but definite scent was being carried by this sudden gust of winds, one he was familiar with. Facing the direction in which the wind had come from he set his eyes on the dark figure laying in a heap a couple of miles away. Even with his superior sight, he could not make out who the figure was but he had an idea and was going to find out.

Low moans resounded from the heap as Sesshoumaru came closer and closer to the shadow, and he winced at the smell that had attacked him with the sudden gust of wind. There was no doubt about it, that smell he could recognize even with the crippling stench that was heavily cloaking his scent, and he smirked as he came upon his fatigued body.

Yea I know, this one was short, but don't worry, I'll make it up to you. Besides, like I said this one's gonna be long, so don't wanna give out too much info in the begining...love you guyz and please review!

Reviews:

demonchik39- HI! Yea I know, it's been a long time, but hey better late than never. I hope I don't let you down, and I'm gonna push myself to update regularly this time, cause last time it took forever to put a chapter up, oops. anywayz, it was great hearing from you, and by the way keep up the great work on your story!

Child of the Silvery Moon- Thanx, yea I know poor Rin, and I think you're not gonna like what happens, but it's all for a good reason, so don't hate me plz! hope you liked it!

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