Kitsune: GOMEN! This will be a good sized update update, and I will update again either tomorrow or the day after to make up for all my tardiness about my stories. Thank you guys for always being so patient. Hope you enjoy it.

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FLASHBACK WITHIN A FLASHBACK

"Kagome, I need you to listen to me. Tomorrow we shall finally face Naraku for the last time. Naraku will try to use you against the rest of us if he can. So when we are fighting you are to stay hidden" Sesshomaru quickly silenced her protests with a hand as he began to talk again. "Kagome no one knows better then I about your feelings on fightings Naraku. I know you want to fight him, to protect your friends, loved ones and to avenge everyone that Naraku has killed. However, if something happens to you then all our efforts will be for nothing. Without you we can not purify the Shikon Jewel. Then it will just fall into corrupt hands again. I want you to stay at a distance and use your arrows to help destroy any lesser demons that you can. Do not go into close combat. No matter how good you are with your Katanas. I repeat, and this Sesshomaru does not repeat himself, do not go into close combat. Do you hear me?" Sesshomaru finished as he looked down to a nearly furious Kagome.

Kagome turned her back to Sesshomaru. "Yes Sesshomaru, I hear yout but that don't mean that I will listen." She said defiantly as she began to walk away from Sesshomaru. However, she didn't get very far before Sesshomaru grabbed her arm and spun her around to face him. "Kagome do not be foolish! Can't you see that you have to survive. You may not care about your life, but others do. I do. Kagome you have to live, for everyone." Sesshomaru said as he pulled Kagome tightly to him as her head rested against his armor less and silk covered chest. Sesshomaru buried his nose in her hair as she in hailed a deep breath taking in the scent that he knew to be uniquely Kagome's. She slowly pulled away from him and placed a soft hand on his cheek as she let her thumb trace along the magenta stripes that adorned Sesshomaru's face. Kagome looked deep into his molten gold colored eyes, that at the moment were not the emotionless eyes that he usually had. No these eyes were filled with so many emotions. She nearly lost herself in his eyes as she felt Sesshomaru draw her closer to his body while his head moved slowly towards hers.

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A few moments later their lips were only a breath away from touching as they continued to stare into each others eyes. Sesshomaru finally closed the small space between them as he softly pressed his lips to hers. As he felt her response to his kiss, he deepened it a little, letting only a small fraction of his pesnt of desire leek into the kiss. His arms tightly encircled her waist as their kiss slowly came to an end from lack of air. Kagome shyly let her arms slip around his neck as she snuggled to his inviting body a little more with the top of her head tucked comfortably under his chin as he rested his head on hers

"Kagome...this Sesshomaru does not apologize for his actions. I have desired to do that for a long time, but did not because I thought you loved my witless brother. After all he has suffered, I was not going to take away the one thing that could bring him more happiness then anything else. So now, I ask, are you in love with InuYasha?" Sesshomaru asked as he tilted her head back so she was looking up at him.

A small sad smile came onto her face, "I do love InuYasha..." Before she could finish, Sesshomaru dropped his arms from around her waist and turned away and began to walk off.

"I see." His voice had went back to its normal emotionless tone as he moved farther away from her.

"No you do not see." Kagome said as she caught up to him and wrapped her arms around his waist, while her cheek was pressed again his back.

"Kagome, I see all that needs to be seen. You do not have to tell anymore." She shook her head slightly and forced Sesshomaru to turn around, facing her. "Let me finish."

At his silence, she took it as a 'go ahead' and began to finish what she had been trying to say. She looked up at him, so she could watch his face as she began to speak. "I do love InuYasha," She saw pain flash in his eyes, but she just gave his hand a soft squeeze and continued, "but as a dear friend and brother." She smiled as she saw his face lighten up a bit. "Just as I love Miroku as a brother, even though he is a pervert, and Sango as my sister. However, I must tell you. There is someone that I love as more then a friend or family." Kagome smiled at the thought of the one who had won her heart over, after she realized that InuYasha would never love her. She felt him begin to pull away from her. "Wait..."She wrapped her arms around his neck as she giggled softly.

"Don't you want to know who he is...?" She asked as she smiled a little more. "Why would I care," he said as she put on a fake pout and pressed a little closer to him. Looking up at him she spoke softly. "Because the one I love is you." She couldn't help but giggle as she saw his delicate eyebrows shoot up to his hair line. "You love me?" He asks as if he hadn't heard her correctly. At her soft nod, a smile graced his face as he grabbed her up and swung her around then softly put her feet back on the ground. He leaned in and kissed her passionately.

END FLASHBACK WITHIN THE FLASHBACK

Kagome knelt beside InuYasha as he slowly opened his eyes.

His eyes slowly went from Kagome to Naraku and back to Kagome before moving to Kikyo as she walked up beside Naraku. "He is so weak and pathetic, don't you think, mate?" Naraku taunted as he held out his arm to Kikyo, allowing her to press her corpse body against his tentacled one. She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him deeply.

While Naraku and Kikyo tortured InuYasha, Kagome quickly glanced around hunting for Sango and Miroku. Sesshomaru stood at her back, protecting her from advancing demons as she held InuYasha's head on her lap and finally caught sight of Miroku. He was holding his cursed hand close to his stomach as he slashed at on coming demons with his staff. A very pale Sango leaned up against a tree behind Miroku. She gasped out as she saw them disappear under a new wave of demons. When the wave of demons moved, she saw no sign of her friends.

Tears came to her eyes as she knew that Sango and Miroku had fallen in battle. Sesshomaru, using his acid whip, destroyed a few demons that was advancing up on Kagome from the side, snapping her out her sorrow. Her eyes went back to InuYasha as she saw a few lone tears slip down his cheeks.

"Yes, he is very weak. And he has no idea what a woman really wants." Kikyo laughed at the look on InuYasha's face. "Don't look so surprised. Did you honestly think that I loved you, and that your pathetic actions would ever please me? Oh what a stupid hanyou you are." She laughed and rubbed her body against Naraku's letting InuYasha watch as his ragged breath slowly stopped all together.

END FLASHBACK

Kagome forced herself to stop thinking about the past and what all she had lost that day. Tears formed on the edge of her eyes as her thoughts flew to Sesshomaru and the love that she felt for him. 'Oh Sessho, why did you have to die...Why did you leave me...' She thought as she tried to steady her emotions.

She didn't even notice that she was still running until she ran into a very firm, yet soft object. She blinked a few times as she fell back onto the ground.

"Are you alright miss?"

Kagome looked up into the face of a young man, around her age with startling green eyes and long red hair. "Yes...I'm fine...I didn't see you there, I'm sorry." she admitted as she blushed slightly in embarrassment. The red haired man smiled and held out his hand to her. "It is quite alright, you seemed to be in quite a hurry. If I may inquire as to where you were going in such haste?" He asked as he gently pulled her feet. "Umm... I was on my to...School! I'm sorry, but I am going to be late!" She cried out as she grabbed her bag and started running again.

The red haired man just blinked a bit as the girl disappeared around the corner. "What an unusual girl." he said to himself as he looked at his watch. "Oh, speaking of being late, I will be if I don't hurry." He quickly set off walking towards his school.

Kagome sat impatiently in the office as the old secretary went about trying to find her uniform and schedule. "Have you found it yet?" she asked as she approached the front desk again.

"Now don't you go giving me any lip now, do you hear me young lady. I won't stand for it." She said as she slammed a schedule down on the desk. She turned and grabbed a black and silver uniform and threw it at Kagome. She easily caught it and picked up her schedule. She looked down at her uniform and noticed that the bag it was neatly placed in had the words "Males Uniform" in big bold letters across it. "This is a guy's uniform!" Kagome said as she glanced at the elder woman. "You wanted a uniform so bad, well now you got one. So go change into it while I call someone up here to show you to your classes." She curtly turned from Kagome to her intercom. "Will Shuichi Minamino please come to the office. Shuichi Minamino, to the office please." She turned off the intercom and turned around to face Kagome. "I done told you to get changed. You have your shoes and everything you need in there. What are you waiting for!"

Kagome glared at the old bag as she walked into the changing room. She quickly stripped off her clothes, stocking, and shoes. She quickly put on her new uniform, liking how the uniform fit her. 'Well at least this uniform isn't to bad. It's pretty comfortable. I can easily move in it too, makes it easier if I have to fight.' She sighed as that last thought crossed her mind. 'Kagome, don't think like that. I don't have to fight for my life anymore..'

Kitsune: hope ya liked it. I will have more very soon. I just need to type it up, and its almost 1 am, and I need sleep! Lol. I cant wait to read reviews! (hinthint)