OKOK please don't kill me! I'm so very sorry but I had some things happen this summer that needed my attention.but here it is! read read slow...make sure to absorbe it all...take deep breaths! breath in..( inhalse deeply)...baby out...(WHAT!)...lol for all of you who knows what it means...yeah...ok on with the storie that you all have been waiting to long for...

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Chapter 8:

Once upon a time Sesshomaru had told her that no man was better than he was and she doubted him, she thought he was a fool to think that there was no one that could defeat him in battle, that he was just being an arrogant jerk. Yes, that's what she thought of him, and how wrong she was.

As Kagome watched the battle before her, she realized that he was telling the truth; there was no man better than he was at battle. Fear shook her body every time Sesshomaru's' name was called announcing that it was his turn again to fight. But she didn't have to worry, every man he fought, lost

Again, and again men fell to Sesshomaru until it was time for his last battle.

Kagome screamed, and jumped to her feet.

Sesshomaru was down. His opponent was running towards him to finish him off when he leapt to his feet, meeting his opponent's sword with his own. Their swords were smashing together. Sesshomaru swung hoping to end it but missed his target.

The battle went on. Neither wanting to give up what they both wanted. Sesshomaru had a deep gash in his right arm from trying to dodge an attack, but missed. Pissed that he had gotten wounded from such a minor lord Sesshomaru decided to end this now. With a mighty slash, he caught his opponents' weapon, and it sailed into the sky, landing ten feet away. Sesshomaru ran forward ending the last battle as he sliced off the head of the man who tried to stand in the way of what he wanted most. The crowd roared, everyone jumped to there feet.

No one was better…

Kagome felt a terrible pain close to her heart as Sesshomaru marched forward and bowed to the god and goddess in front of him.

"I have beaten the last man."

"Indeed Sesshomaru, you have done well! You are crowned this years God of the Battle. You may now choose your lady and your prize."

He could claim gold, land, what ever he wanted, as long as Miroku had the power to grant it. But what he wanted, he read in a book.

"I choose my lady and my prize as one." He pointed to Kagome, and wondering what game he was playing at, she felt the blood drain from her face.

"Stand!" Sango hissed to her.

She wasn't certain that she could.

"What is this?" the Lord of the north demanded.

"The law states that the winner of the battles may choose what ever they desire as long as the God has the power to do so. I do not wish for gold or for lands. I only wish to be allowed to marry the woman that has taught me so much, the woman I love; I will marry Kagome, no matter what. And it is not up to you, lord of the north it is up to Miroku."

"What a beautiful gesture, dear lord." Sango interrupted before there was another battle, that Sesshoamru was going to win broke out. Sango turned to Miroku to see what he would do. If it was up to her she would have already put Sesshomaru and Kagome together, even thought she had only met the girl today she knew that they belonged together, she just hopped that her mate could see that too.

Yes she loved Miroku very much, but sometimes he could be stupid. He was very powerful and unfortunately that attracted a lot of young ladies to him. Sango wasn't stupid she knew that Kagome was pretty and that he would try to go after her to. It actually surprised her to see that he hadn't. It might have something to do with that last time that he tried to get with another woman, she had hit him so hard on the head that he wasn't able to think strait for a week. That put panic in to the area that they were in because he was giving out answers to other people's questions.

She was knocked out of her train of thoughts when she heard Miroku's voice.

"Lord Sesshomaru, you have a beautiful woman here, smart, beautiful, funny, beautiful it would give me great pleasure if i could see her tonight and …"

"Ahem..." Sango said to remind him that she was right there beside him, and to not do anything dumb.

"… announce that I give this lovely woman to you as your wife." he corrected himself befor he got hit in the head.

The crowd was deadly quite, no one moved. Kagome heart was beating faster and faster as she heard the comments that Miroku was making. Her heart completely stopped when she heard that she was to become Sesshomaru's wife.

Suddenly the crowd cheered, louder than ever before. Kagome looked around at everyone, Rin was jumping for joy that Kagome was going to be her sister, she didn't like Mly, the lord of the North Keyvan was sitting there with his arms crossed glaring at her. The biggest shock came when she seen Sango wink at Sesshomaru, 'They must have been working together from the beginning.' she thought, as she was swept up into Sesshomaru's strong arms. Only one thought was going threw her mind as he kissed her with as much happiness as he could. 'I can wait till the honeymoon!'

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I am sorry that it took a long ass time to get this one up but I ran into some problems this summer and I hope that you all can forgive me, I will get the next chapter up by the weekend that is coming up, so you wont have to wait that long. I want you all to know that I will be ending this soon. I do hope that you will read my other stories that I have.

I thank you all if you are still reading this, if it wasn't for you then I wouldn't be able to write. I love you all.

Peace out.

Akada