Authors Notes: This is short. Because Im sick and busy. Im sick and Im trying to get a lot of things with my house fixed because the inspector is coming by to see the work we've done on it. Yeah I know,we've been working on the house since Bad Day started a year ago. But in the process my step-dad broke his shoulder twice now and the guy helping us out went to his family because something happened with his wife and yeah. It's a shitty deal. But I gotta get things fixed up before the end of the month or else we'll lose our permits to remodel and that means the downstairs wont get done for a long time.

I wish my brothers would help.Bastards.

On a happier note Ive been with Matt for a month now. And its going awesomely and he surprised me by taking me to Memoirs of a Geisha. IT ROCKED!

Onto the story.

Disclaimer: I no own INU YASHA. I do own the original characters and plot though.

Falls On Me

Chapter 25

"I want to do this tonight. I feel like I have to, or else something bad will happen," Kagome told Sesshoumaru as he lay next to her.

"You're too weak. I could hurt you," He began. She silenced him with a gentle kiss.

"I'll be fine."

"How can you be so sure?" He asked. He didn't want to hurt her. Didn't want to be his father.

"Just trust me," She whispered as she leaned into him and began to slowly kiss him.

It was a passionate kiss, but not like the others had been. The others had been hungry, rough, filled with a searing fire that threatened to destroy them. This kiss though…It was slow, sensuous and filled with promise, a flame held tightly in. His hands traveled over her body, tracing her curves with appreciation, her hands were running through his long hair.

But soon the kiss began to grow more demanding, speaking for both of them as they began to strip one another without regard to their garments. Kagome moaned deeply into their kiss and he broke it, looking down at her naked body beneath his, loving the scent of her arousal, taking pride in the fact that he was the one who caused it.

"Are you sure?" He asked. Kagome nodded and squirmed her hips, trying to get closer to him, to take him into herself. Sesshoumaru leaned down and nuzzled the juncture of her neck and shoulders, licking it slightly.

Then he thrust in deep and hard, just as he bit down into her neck, tasting her blood and feeling her soul.

"Mama, what if you loved someone, who refused to love you back?" Kagome asked in shaky whisper. Her mother heard the sobs being held at bay within that whisper.

"I'd do whatever I could to win their love," Mrs. Higurashi answered.

"What if they can't love anyone?"

"Everyone can love someone. But for some people, it's hard. Maybe something happened to him to hurt him so much that he built a wall around his heart, and he's scared to let that wall down," The older woman said.

So many of her thoughts and memories flowed into him. And she saw his own. He let his energy flow into her, giving her a part of himself. He let her see and feel his love for her, his fear for her current condition, the joy because he felt the energy of his children inside of her womb.

His pace increased and he moved above her, feeling her legs wrap around his waist, her hands scratching at his back as if fighting to keep a hold on reality.

Then all three kingdoms seemed to collide as he felt the most pleasurable ecstasy shatter his being and piece it back together again.

"I love you," He whispered into her ear as he collapsed beside her on the bed, pulling her into his embrace. He noticed the smile on her lips.

"I love you too Sesshoumaru," She whispered as he wiped the bangs from her face.

The next morning brought urgent knocking on the doors. Kagome and Sesshoumaru stretched and Kagome snuggled deeper into her mate's embrace.

"Tell them to go away," She growled. Sesshoumaru chuckled.

"You two get dressed now! Meet us in my study!" Okibi commanded as she poked her head in, then left, slamming the door. Sesshoumaru and Kagome dressed as quickly as possible and ran for Okibi's study. They walked in and closed the doors behind them. Several youkai were already there.

"What's going on?" Kagome asked.

"Anei was attacked last night on the way back here, and Inu Yasha was taken. I sent out a scout. The seal was broken somehow. Those bastards knew how to undo all that work!" Okibi shouted as she slammed her fist onto the small table they all sat at.

"Okibi, calm down," Kasen said in a steady, soothing voice.

"Okibi, you have to call all of the remaining phoenixes here. The original ones that weren't born with any youkai blood in them," Kagome said in a small voice. Okibi looked at the miko as if she had lost her mind.

"I think at this point it's best to listen to her my love," Kasen told his wife. Okibi merely nodded and sighed.

"Anei has told me the youkai have all joined and that Inu Yasha is…Different from any youkai he has ever seen. There's something odd about it. I don't understand how they can all just absorb into him. I've never really thought that a youkai would willingly let itself be absorbed," Okibi said.

"I don't understand why. The how is simple though. One thought is all it takes. For them to all want to be stronger, to have more power. That thought is what lets them all bond and become one entity," Miroku stated as he walked in. Kagome jumped up and ran to him(as best she could in her weakened condition anyway) then hugged him tightly.

"We heard rumors and thought it best to come here," Sango said in a rough voice. Kagome looked at her friend in shock. Sango looked as if she had never been pregnant at all!

"Kaede gave me an herbal tea to help me lose what I had gained. And I've been practicing a lot," Sango stated, reading Kagome's thoughts. Kagome ran and hugged her friend tightly as well.

"So, there's another version of Naraku running around, using Inu Yasha as a host?" Sango asked.

"That about sums it up," Kouga said as the three humans sat down at the small table.

"Hmph. Well, at least we have the shikon jewel," Sango said brightly. Then she took in the dour look on everyone's faces.

"Don't tell me it busted again."

"No, it was stolen. We think it is still whole," Sesshoumaru began.

"Damnit, why doesn't someone just throw that damn jewel away or find some place to hide it or something?" Sango shouted.

"Sango, I'll make a note to do that when we get it back. And we will get it back," Kagome said in a confident voice.

"The question is, what do we do? Do we let it come to us or do we hunt it?" Jinchi asked.

"We meet them on a battle ground of their choosing, but it will be only a few miles away from here. And they will be here in two days time," Kagome finished.

"Then I better go to my chamber and start contacting the others," Okibi said, referring to her kindred. Kagome nodded. Everyone got up and began to amble out of the room. However, Sango and Miroku were looking at Kagome and Sesshoumaru's hands in interest.

"When did you two start being so affectionate?" Sango asked.

"We're mates, as of last night," Kagome said.

"Okay. Sesshoumaru, I don't care if you are a youkai lord. If you hurt her, I will rip your balls off and feed them to you," Sango said in sharp tone.

"Understood," Sesshoumaru said, his face and voice expressionless.

Kagome expelled a sigh of relief. She was sure the old Sesshoumaru would have hurt Sango for that comment!

With a startled look Miroku walked over and hugged Kagome gently. Kagome smiled and Sesshoumaru joined them, standing fluidly. He picked Kagome up, noticing she had begun to tremble with lack of energy.

"Time to take you back to bed," He began.

"Now just wait a minute, we just got back and there's no way you're going to keep her all to yourself!" Sango snapped, mistaking the situation.

"Sango, look at Kagome, she's ill," Miroku said gently. Sesshoumaru nodded, and Sango suddenly noticed how pale her friend was.

"What's happening to her?" Sango asked worriedly.

"Shisou can explain it, or Anei. I'm going to take her to our room. I will see you both later. If she's feeling up to it, would you like to have dinner with us in our rooms tonight?" The youkai lord asked.

Sango was too stunned by the invitation to accept it right away. Miroku however, was her saving grace.

"Yes, Lord Sesshoumaru, thank you," The houshi said in a solemn (yet pleased none the less) tone.

"Your friends are very protective of you. I will have them guard you with Anei two days from now," Sesshoumaru told Kagome a little while later. Kagome nodded. She knew her friends would help her do what she had to do. It was going to be risky. Not even the dragons knew the outcome.

"I think they're a little scared of how you've changed since they last saw you," Kagome whispered as her mate rubbed his thumb over her cheek affectionately.

"Kagome, a long time ago, I lost someone I loved very deeply. And I don't want to lose you, I don't want to-" He stopped before he said too much.

"I know. I love you, mate," She said in a gentle tone.

"And I love you, mate," He whispered back as he lay next to her and watched her fall into a light, troubled sleep.

Kagome walked through the giant halls that were shaped from stone. It seemed as if she was in a giant cave.

"You seek answers, little one?" A quiet yet resonant voice asked.

"No, I need help. I'm going to guarded, and I know they won't let me chance it. And, I don't think Okibi and the others will believe you and the dragons will come to help them," Kagome told Keiei.

"Little one, you have our strength. But, what will you do, when the battle is over? You realize that you will die if you go through with this," Keiei told her.

"I might die. Humans are the most egotistical creatures with the greatest desire for their dreams. We will continue to run after our dreams. I want to live. I'm pregnant with Sesshoumaru's children. I don't want to die. But I know if I don't do this…Everyone will die."

"Have you thought about our offer?" Keiei asked her. Kagome sighed and nodded.

"If you were to transport me back to my own time, I could live, but would I be able to come back to the feudal era?" She asked.

"I don't know little human. Perhaps. Perhaps not."

"Damnit. I just want to find happiness with my mate," Kagome suddenly sobbed as the tears began to fall.

"There is a way, for you to both be together. It would require a great amount of work on my part, but, I think perhaps I could make it happen, with a little help from the Gods," Keiei told her. Kagome felt the fatherly affection radiating from him.

"How?"

"I can not tell you until I know for sure it can work. I do not give out false hope little one. But I have one condition," Keiei said in a warning tone.

"What's that?" Kagome asked.

"You must take care of the child Maru."

"Sango's child? But why?" Kagome asked in a confused tone.

"She is the child of your soul. The night you helped Sango give birth, you pushed your energy into Sango so that she could have the last child. You saved both mother and child, but in doing so, put enough of your energy into Sango and the child that the child is now your child, bonded by soul, by karma."

"No WAY!" Kagome screeched. "That is Sango's baby! I saw it pop out of her!"

"It did 'pop out of her' as you so quaintly put it, but that child transformed miko. Because of your energy. It is your child," Keiei finished in a tone that brooked no argument.

"If Sango will agree," Kagome began tentively, hating herself for answering. Was she being selfish? Most likely. But…To be together with Sesshoumaru after the battle…Was it worth it?

"She already has in her own way," Keiei said as the scenery around her began to fade.

"What about the battle?" Kagome shouted.

"We will help you when the time comes," Keiei said as his voice faded.

And then she was awake again.

Sango tossed and turned in her sleep and Miroku watched his lovely wife. He knew her pain, her dilemma. Knowing a child was no longer hers by soul…To know it was all a mistake, spurred on by the help of her best friend. Sango had told him everything only a few nights ago. The dragons had told her about the battle, about her child, about how Maru wasn't really anyone's save Kagome's. It was a hard truth to accept. Even harder to accept the fact that the child would be taken away from them.

But Sango had made the choice.

"Miroku?" Sango's voice asked wearily. Miroku smiled at his now awake wife.

"Yes my love?"

"Am I doing the right thing?" Her voice was laced with doubt and fear.

"I think so. I think perhaps this is ordained by the gods," Miroku told her.

"I hate the Gods," Sango snapped.

"At times we all do dearest."

Authors End Notes: I might redo this. I still dont know.You guys tell me please.