Thank you all who have read this story. It gives me such happiness to know that my writing has inspired other people to write their thoughts and feelings. However, I am sad to say This is the end. This is the last chapter of this story. I really appreciate all of the reviews that I have gotten from you all. I had received some reviews saying that they wish to see Kagome get mad at Sesshomaru. I do not like to re write my stories, since it was already written. You will have to read ahead and see if she doses…Kagome did not go into the future…Her and Sesshomaru have always been in the same time zone… which happens to be 200 years head of the original story takes place. I hope that you all enjoy this next chapter for it is the last and there will be no more once this one is complete... once again I thank you all and I hope that you will read my others. Well here we go… take a deep breath…and GO!

Chapter 11: The true meaning.

'What should I do? Should I tell Key-van that his father is the man who makes the laws? I mean he talks about Sesshomaru with so much hatred because of all the times he has gotten in trouble… I would hate to see what he dose, or what he says to Sesshomaru.' Kagome was in so deep of thought that she never heard the footsteps behind her…

Sesshomaru was in his room thinking about Kagome and his son. 'He would be at least 16 years old this month it he really was my son.' He thought. 'I don't even get to wish him a happy birthday, when ever it might come.'

Sesshomaru need to get out of that place and soon. He has been wandering around his home for the past week never going outside. Not even when Rin asked him to. He felt bad for neglecting his sister so much but he just wasn't in the mood to entertain her. He was old enough to go outside. She should be finding someone who would make a suitable husband for herself, not hanging around her older brother.

Sesshomaru stood from his bed ad got dressed. Today he would go outside, go to the village, and get a present for the son he never knew. Hopping that one day if he seen him, he would be able to give him something to let the boy know that he was thinking of him.

When Sesshomaru stepped outside on his way to the village he noticed that it was still dark outside. He loved the nighttime. It gave him the feeling of supreme power. Not many people were up at this hour, and it made them very vulnerable.

Sesshomaru took the long way to the village. It gave him more time to think about what he should get his son. He really never had to buy anything for a boy before, only for his sister. However, she had always told him what she wanted, so he never really needed to think about what to buy.

'What would I want?' he thought 'maybe a sword…yeah that would be a great idea, he could stay with me for a few days and I could teach him how to use it. Then maybe Kagome would see what a great father I would be to our son and how much I'm sorry for everything I did to her. Maybe she would come back to me… maybe she would see that she means so much to me… Maybe she would see that I love her more that anything else on this earth'

He walked a little bit faster now that he knew what it was that he was getting. He knew the best place to get it to. There was a little shop right in the center of the small village that sold historical swords.

He had been in there a few times debating on if he should buy one of them for himself to add to his collection. There was one that he had his eye on. It was an older sword, made for one of the former lords son. He did not understand why someone would want to sell something that was supposed to be kept in their family.

The sword he was going to buy his son was called the 'Tetsusaiga' it was supposed to have the power of destruction. He thought it was perfect. It was the brother of the sword that he was thinking of getting himself. Not that he needed another sword to use, hell he already had two on him at all times, but it was his thing to keep him busy. It helped keep him mind off Kagome. Searching for rare swords and artifacts of things that once belonged to the former lords of the west.

He was just thinking about what to do when he seen some movement coming from the path ahead of him. Sesshomaru hid in the trees and observed the person who was awake at this time of day. After about five minutes of watching he noticed that it was a female and by the looks of it she was headed into the same village.

Being the Lord of theses lands he felt the sort of obligation to protect this woman from any harm that may come to her if others were walking and happened to see her. Sesshomaru decided to make his presence known to this female.

However, what he did not expect was that there was someone who was watching this girl also…

'… I mean what if he hates him… what if.' Kagome suddenly heard a noise coming from behind her making her lose her train of thought.

"Who's there?" she asked cautiously. She asked again, only a little bit harsher, when no one answered her. "Who is out there?"

Suddenly there were more noises coming from the bushes. Kagome was surrounded. She had nowhere to go. Nowhere to run. There was forest in front of, and behind her. Everywhere the dark woods that offered her no protection, she was surrounded. Kagome heart was beating four times as fast as it should have. She was waiting, waiting for some one to pop out and attack.

Kagome took her defense stand and prepared her self to fight with nothing more than her own hands.

Kagome waited but nothing happened. Thinking that it was just her imagination, Kagome kept walking, but suddenly she heard it again. Only this time she was sure that there was someone out there, watching her.

"You do not have to fear me, m' lady," A deep voice said from behind the darkness of the early morning. " For I am only here to offer my protection from and enemies that may approach you."

"I do not fear you. You speak the truth." She said calmly.

The man was shocked that the hooded woman knew that he was not a threat, he was glad that she did not fear him, or run away from him, but to fully trust a stranger in the woods was something that you should never do. Especially if that someone was a young woman.

"You may be wondering how I know that you are telling me the truth and mean me no harm."

"Yes."

"Well that is simple, I know who you are, Sesshomaru."

He was surprised to say the least. "You know me, but how is it that I do not know you?" he asked her.

Kagome smiled under the hood of her cap. She knew that this would be the only time that she would ever have to talk to Sesshomaru with out him knowing who she was.

However, part of her wanted to tell him that it was her, the girl who had been carrying his child when he decided that she was a whore and not worthy of believing. She wanted to scream and yell at him for not listening to her. To tell him what a beautiful son they had made. However, most of all she wanted to tell him that it was her, Kagome, who he was talking to. She wanted to tell him that she was ok and that he was a father of a beautiful young man. She wanted to run into his arms and be held with in the warmth of his body. She longed for his warmth, his touch, and his sweet words. However cruel fate always stepped in the way and she never got what she had wanted. She often dreamed about running to him, just to be with him, even though she knew that he would never accept her.

Kagome was glad that she had the dark sky to cover her face. Warm tears slowly ran down her face as she thought about all the wonderful times that they had shared together.

The dark winds blew on the lifting her hair to whip around wildly in the wind.

"You know who I am. For I am nothing." She said as she turned and walked away, leaving a confused lord behind her.

'I am nothing… What is that supposed to mean?' he thought as he chased after her. He was shocked to find out how far she had gotten from him. He ran behind her and grasped her upper arm, and spun her around so she was facing him. Unfortunately for Kagome her hood flew off when she was pulled backwards.

"What is that supposed to mean?" he asked as he looked into her face. 'Wow she beautiful... creamy, skin reminds me of …oh...my...god!'

"Kagom-" Sesshomaru was cut off in his sentence when he felt a cold blade placed up against him throat.

A deep growl was heard from behind him "Let her got before I remove your head from your neck!"

Sesshomaru was never the kind of man to go walking around with out his sword by his side. 'If this fool would thinks that he is able to defeat this Sesshomaru the he can try. However, it will be the last thing that he ever does.' he thought.

"Tell me boy. Do you think that you are able to defeat me? Do you know who I am? Do you know who you are talking to?"

" I do not need to defeat you I only need to get you to let go of her. No, I do not know who you are, nor do I care." He finished boldly.

"You are brave young man. To threaten your lord with a sword that is as dull as your brain."

"Lord- what?"

Sesshomaru turned to see the face of the young boy who threatened him, but he still did not release Kagome from his hold. If anything his grip, around her arm, tightened.

If Sesshomaru had been paying attention to what the boy looked like, it would have been like looking at him self. Yet Sesshomaru seen only what he wanted to see. And that was someone who dares to threaten his life.

"If you do not release her I shall take her from you by force!" he said as he swung his sword in the air trying to hit Sesshomaru's neck.

Sesshomaru dodged it by side stepping the uncoordinated swing while still holding on to Kagome.

"Stay here. If you move from this spot I will find you!" he growled as he drew out his sword from his hip.

Kagome lunged forwards and grabbed on to his right arm to stop him from attacking his own son.

"NO! Do no attack him!"

Sesshomaru growled at her but went forward to fight the small boy that dared to challenge him.

Kagome couldn't do anything about it. She knew that there was nothing that she could do but sit back and watch, and hope for the best.

Sesshomaru walked towards the boy and pulled his sword from his hip and took his stand. He waited for the boy to make the first move. He jumped out of the way as a sword came towards his face. He easily side stepped the blow that was meant to kill him. Seeing an opening Sesshomaru slashed at the boy cutting him deeply into the right side. Blood was slowly staining the boys clothing but still the child would not give up. The continued to fight. It seemed like they had the battle rehearsed. One would swing, the other defend, and switch. That's how it went. For Kagome it felt like it was hours and hours they were fighting, but in reality they had only been fighting for half and hour.

Finally when there was no sound of metal clashing against metal only the sound of their breath could be heard. Finally someone spoke. "Tell me boy," Sesshomaru said. "Why is it that it matter so much if I was going to touch this woman?" he questioned.

"It doesn't matter why it matters to me! I do not have to explain my self to the likes of you."

"Ahh, but that is where you are wrong my boy. You see you do need to." Sesshomaru said as he suddenly swung and landed a surprise hit on the left side of the boy causing him to fall to the ground. "You will either give up or you will die. I do not have time for this nonsense.," he told him as he towered over the limp figure on the ground. Sesshomaru spoke so calmly that it sent shivers down Kagome's spine.

Throughout the whole battle all she could do was sit there. There were so many times where she wanted to jump up and stop Sesshomaru from hitting their son. However, she knew better than to make such a bold move. One might lose focus and cause some serious damage to the other. However, when she seen Sesshomaru's sword crash into her son's side she lost it.

Suddenly Sesshomaru felt a weight on his arm. He looked down to see that Kagome had attached herself to his arm. "What are you doing? I told you to stay there." He said to her.

Kagome's anger suddenly reached its limit. "I don't care what you told me to do! I will not listen to you! I will not let you kill my son!" she blurted out. She couldn't take it anymore, she knew that if she didn't speak the truth that she would lose her only son to his father.

"Your son?"

"Yes"

There were so many different thoughts running threw his head. Kagome had a son. She was pregnant with his child when she left. She new he was going to have a son. The boy looked just like he did.

Sesshomaru lowered his sword from the position on the boy's neck, and turned to face Kagome

"How old?"

"16"

"So…So he is…Is he? … This is my son?"

Happiness, anger, hate, and confusion were only some of the feelings that were going through Kagome's thoughts at that point. ' How could you be so dumb as to not notice even your own son? He looks just like you' she thought to her self.

"Yes he is your son. His name is Key-van. He wanted to meet you ever since he was little but I never let him. I didn't think you would want anything to do with him because you never believed me when I told you that he was your child in the first place." She finished. Kagome didn't notice that she had started to cry until she had felt Sesshomaru's warm hand pressed against her cold face. For the first time in a little over 16 years Kagome looked into the golden eyes of the one she loved.

"I only said that because I did not think it was possible for us to create something from just that one night. The first thought that came in to my head that night was that you had bedded with another and I could not take that so I let myself believe that it was true." He said as he whipped away the tears that were staining her face. He looked deep into her eyes. Leaning forward slightly in hopes of claming her lips as his once more, where a whimper was heard from behind them.

Kagome's face paled at the sight of her only son lying in a pool of his own blood. The wound from Sesshomaru's sword had cut him deeply. Kagome rushed out of Sesshomaru's arms to Key-van and tried and stop the bleeding from his side.

"We need to get help!" she screamed at Sesshomaru, who was just standing there.

"Lets bring him to my home. It is not that far and we can get him bandaged up there." He said in a calm voice.

Sesshomaru walked over to the young boy and lifted him from his mothers embrace. With only a small groan of protest from being moved they started off into the rising sunlight towards his home. When they arrived the servants rushed out towards their Lord.

Do not let this boy die. You will take care of him as if he was my self. When you have cleaned and bandaged his wounds place him in the room across the hall from mine." he dictated to his servants. Sesshomaru looked at Kagome then back at his servants. "Her name is Kagome. Place her in the room next to the boy. See to it that there is a fire lit in each room." with a quick wave of his hand Sesshomaru dismissed his servants.

The days that Kagome was at Sesshomaru's home were filled with boredom for the most part. Kagome would wait for her son to wake, go out for a walk, eat diner with Sesshomaru and read books like she did when she was her over 16 years ago. Her favorites were the fairy tales. The ones where true love always won, the boy and girl loved each other that they would die just to be with the other one. Oh how she craved to be loved that way, but sadly she knew that it wouldn't happen.

Some days were better than others. Kagome and Sesshomaru would talk while walking through his gardens and they would speak of the future that they would have had if they would have stayed together. More and more Kagome had been having feelings for Sesshomaru that would become so strong that she would have to actually have to leave the room if he was there.

Kagome knew that she loved him still. However, she didn't want to act upon it. She didn't want to get hurt. However, the feelings that she had made it seem so right. Just to be near him gave her the greatest comfort when her son would not wake. And she was not the only one for Sesshomaru was feeling the same way.

"Kagome?" Sesshomaru asked her one particularly lazy day.

"Yes"

"I was wondering… umm… what would happen to Key-van should something happen to you?"

Kagome hadn't thought about it at all. It wasn't as if she thought that she could live forever, it was just there were so many things that were going on that she never really happened to think about it at all.

"I'm not to sure. I mean I guess he would get the home, and what little money I have but that's about it." She said to him. "why do you ask?"

"well I was thinking about it for a while. And what if he were to come and live here? I mean it's big enough and it wouldn't be any trouble at all."

"Ummm… well I guess so I mean its best if her would be with someone that he knows if something was to happen, but you'll need to talk it over with him when he wakes."

And that's exactly how it happened. Her sons fate was decided after about two more weeks of recovery Sesshomaru had talked to him about it and he had also apologized over and over and over for the injuries that he had given him. But all Key-van would say to that was "what ever, damage is done." He didn't care about his injuries very much. He knew that he would heal.

Three days after Sesshomaru had talked with his son about going to live with him if any thing should happen to Kagome. Sesshomaru had decided that today would be the best day to ask Kagome to move in with him again. He loved her. he knew he did with all of his heart. He hated it when she had left him the first time, even if it was his fault. He couldn't bear being separated from her any longer. She was everything to him, his life, his home, and his heart. He would give up anything to ensure her safely. Even his own life.

Sesshomaru went looking for his beloved Kagome. After searching his home for a half an hour he finally found her in the strangest place. On the roof out side his window. She seemed so peaceful sitting there with a book in her hands.

"Kagome?" his whispered, and trying not to disturb her.

"I know you are there so there is no point in trying to be silent." She said as she smiled at him.

"How did you know that I was here?"

"Oh please, you were never good at being silent no matter how hard you tried." She snickered.

"As I recall," he stated as he climbed out the window to going her on the roof. "Neither were you"

Sesshomaru was hopping to get a reaction out of her but all he got was a slight glance and she went back to writing, Sesshomaru attempted to read what she was writing but he could not make out the words. Not that he couldn't read them but they were in a language he could not read.

"What is it that you are writing?"

"Something that you do not like."

"What don't I like?"

"A story."

"About what?"

"My life, what happened who I met what they did to me. I am almost finished it. I only need to write the ending of it."

"Will it be a happy ending?" he asked her hopping that she would say yes.

"I do no know" Kagome went back to writing. She did not want to be disturbed. She really wanted to finish her story. Key-van kept bugging her on when she was going to finish it. She had started to read it to him as a bed time story, each night he would ask her to tell him a story so she decided to tell him the one of her life, but of course she had changed Sesshomaru's name into something else. This story would be the most important thing that she handed down to her son when she passed away. It held the meaning of who he was and where he came from. Something that she had always whished that she had known.

"Kagome? I was thinking about moving you into my home…"

Kagome's head spun so fast to look at him she was sure that there would be a kink in her neck in the morning. She tried to catch Sesshomaru's eyes but he avoided her.

"I mean, I missed you. So much. I don't think that I could bear the sight of you walking out of my life once again. You would take so much more from me than just my son. You would also take everything that I am, my heart and my soul would also follow you. I couldn't live with out you, I cant live with out you. You mean so much more to me than my own life, I would give anything to keep you with me."

For the first time in her entire life she saw a single tear run down his smooth creamy face. The realization of what that tear meant to her hit her like a brick wall. Someone was crying for her, not for some problem and they wanted comfort, but actually for her. Someone wanted to be near her and to have her with them. And not just for pleasure. She felt her own heart beating rapidly within her chest. suddenly it was clear to her. One hundred percent sure...

"Come on Kids! Its time for you to go to bed! you all have school in the morning!" said a beautiful young woman from the doorway of the library.

"Awww come on mmom! Just FIVE MORE MINUTES??" her two children said in unison.

"Now kids listen to your mother." their father said.

The two little kids pouted but reluctantly slid off their fathers knee. He watched as his wife Khrystina put their kids, Yuki and Taro to bed. He looked at the book in his hand that he was reading to his children for a bed time story. It was one of his favorites. He was so mesmerized by the book that he didn't realize the Christina was standing beside him.

"Which story was it tonight?" she asked sweetly. Oh how she loved her husband. He was always so kind and gentle with the children that it almost broke her heart when he had to leave to go off and take care of something's.

"The one my mother wrote."

"Oh, I never did get to finish that one. So I never got the chance to see how it ended. I wish I would have met your mother. From what I read in her book she was a very special woman" she told him as she gazed into the fire.

"Yes she was. But she died shortly after completing this.." he held up the book that was bound in leather. " It was the only thing that I had ever really wanted, ever since I was a little boy. And she finished it… Just so I could know who I was." Suddenly his anger got the best of him and he stood up so fast that the chair that he was sitting on tipped over. "She could have saved herself if she wasn't so worried about this book! She could have gotten away! She could have lived!" he screamed to the heavens.

Khrystina gently placed a hand on Key-vans shoulder. "I know. But from what you have told me even with the fighting skills your father had there was no way they would have been able to defeat that many people. there were just too many. I'm sure she knew that and wanted you to remember her so she hid the book so you could find it."

Deep in side Key-van knew that it was true but it didn't make the pain any less to deal with. he wanted to get revenge against the people who dared to kill his parents. And over sometihng to stupid. Over a small peice of proporty! and they Killed his father and his mother with out showing and pity that he was in the room. it was surprising that he had even gotten away. he ran outside through a small secret hold that his father had shown him. After that he was sent to live with his aunt Rin for the next two tears till he was old enough to take his fathers place. But id it wasnt for thier death he never would have gotten to knwo Khrystina, and never would have known the true meaning of love... Suddenly he felt a warmth wrap around his body. He came out of his train of thought to see his wife's arms wrapped around his waist. He embraced her and told her that he would never let happen to them what happened to his parents.

Key-van righted the chair and sat bringing his wife with him. That's how they would stay that night. They would sit for hours in that room... her sitting on his lap reading their favorite story over and over, one day reading it to their other children they would have and they to would hear about the fairy tale, where dreams do come true.

They sat there together, wondering if one day that their children would have the Fairy tale that dreamed of…..

Thank you all for reading this. I really appreciate every review that you guys send me. Please if you feel up to it check out my other stories that I'm writing, or read Luna angle 777's stories there "ok" …nothing compared to mine….jks jks there good. But thank you all once more and I wish you all the best of luck to all of you who are writing also!.

Peace out for the last time…

Akada.