Chapter 24, the last of this series but READ THE NOTE AT THE END. One-shots to come.

Sesshomaru felt his heart stop as the world around him erupted in chaos. His mother had sent an attack very much like Kagura's Dance of Blades at Jamila's back. Jamila, true to form, had taken the brunt of the attack to protect Kagome who would have been hit instead.

The scent of her blood filled the air and arched almost beautifully through the air. Almost in the same instant Kiku's blood scent came upon the air as Kumi's staff was removed from her lifeless body.

Miu dropped to her knees in astonishment as Sesshomaru let out a furious howl. It was full of pain, fury, and fear. A sound she'd never expect to hear from a man like Sesshomaru's throat.

"We are all dead!" Gin wept pressing her face into the sand. "Dead for the sake of Kiku's pride."

Kagome was kneeling beside Jamila her hands glowing brightly while Inuyasha held Sesshomaru away from his injured mate. "Kagome will heal her! Don't lose yourself." He growled.

Kagome could see that though the wound was deep it wasn't life threatening at all. She focused her power to knitting the injury back together rather than purifying and the wound slowly closed.

Jamila lay quietly her eyes closed as the howl filtered into her mind. The shock of the attack and the hit had sent her reeling into a semi-conscious state. She swam up out of the darkness urgent to answer Sesshomaru's call. "Sesshomaru." She breathed opening her eyes to meet his own. In that instant she finally realized why he continued to distance himself from her. "I will never leave you."

Sesshomaru said nothing back; he simply kept his eyes locked with hers until she began to sit up. He lifted her into his arms and cradled her against his chest as the hundreds, thousands, of emotions he'd kept locking away flooded through him.

'Now do you see?' His father's voice seemed to echo. 'One cannot deny one's true feelings.' The memory had been one he'd long forgotten. He'd been a child and had been unable to hide his fury at another demon child who'd insulted him. His father had always been unhappy with the way Sesshomaru had hid his feelings. And tried to use that to prove a person couldn't be emotionless. It was the same lesson he'd tried to teach Sesshomaru right before he died.

Jamila reached up and placed a hand gently against his cheek and gave him a soft smile. "Let's go home."

Five years later

Jamila watched Kagome run in circles her hands above her head with a twelve year old Rin mimicking her every movement. Behind the two of them was a strange group of children. Sango and Miroku's twin daughters at five ran after them with Inuyasha and Kagome's one year old son and Kumi and Xanthus's two year old daughter on their backs.

Jamila was pregnant with her and Sesshomaru's first pups. She had told Sesshomaru, when pressed, that she didn't want to become pregnant until Sesshomaru had settled in his own mind, what his feelings were. Four years of arguing, silence, and deep reflection later, Sesshomaru had come to Jamila and told her that despite his intentions he'd fallen in love with her.

"Despite your intentions?" Jamila had asked giggling too happy to have his love than to care for his statement.

"I did not need love, I had power, I had the world. But you kept poisoning my mind, making me think of you when I didn't want to, making me worry about you when you are doing reckless things, making me…miss you when you'd go visit my brother and his mate. I did not want to love you. It goes against everything I believed." Sesshomaru admitting trailing a hand gently down his cheek.

"What do you believe now?" Jamila asked leaning into his hand and smiling up at him.

"I still don't need to love you." Sesshomaru replied. "But I want to."

Jamila burst into tears and Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow at her. "Stop being so ridiculous." He wiped the tears away with his fingertips. "Why are you crying?"

"You took a long time!" Jamila replied leaping into his arms. "But that's alright. I would have waited forever."

"Hn." Sesshomaru replied nuzzling her cheek. It was hard to them to adjust to this love of Sesshomaru's, after all, his mother had never loved him or his father, so he didn't have any examples but Jamila loved him more than enough to teach him.

She felt a sharp pain in her stomach and groaned. "Kagome! It's time!"

Kagome stopped abruptly and began ordering everyone around. Rin gathered the children and led them into the nursery and Xanthus and Miroku, who'd been watching in the background went with them. Inuyasha dropped from a nearby tree and shot off to find Sesshomaru while Kumi and Sango helped Jamila to her birthing room.

When Sesshomaru burst into the room it was a moment etched into Jamila's mind. His eyes were wide with worry and anticipation and love. It had taken them so long to get to this point, Jamila hadn't always been patient with her 'emotionally stunted', as Kagome had once called him, mate, but she loved him so much it didn't matter what had happened before; only what would happen now.

Hours later found Kagome handing Sesshomaru one of two small bundles. One had a fringe of his silver hair, the other a lighter red than their mothers. They were equally mixed bloods, half cat, half dog and Sesshomaru had never seen anything more precious than Jamila smiling down into the babies faces.

"What shall we name them?" Jamila asked looking up into her husband's face. "I like Ichigo for this handsome lad." She told him running her fingers into his red hair. "We need something sweet!" She giggled.

"Then this will be Doku." Sesshomaru told her leaning in to kiss her forehead. "Since you poisoned me so completely."

Jamila smiled widely and tilted her face up to kiss his lips. "Only after you poisoned me first. It hurt so good I couldn't stop."

"You mate, are ridiculous."

Jamila just laughed and cuddled Ichigo closer. Thank you Mother, for this wonderful family you've given me.

It is not over! I wanted to wrap up the story but I have more that will go with this! There will be a collection of one shots after this to show the four years of them working towards him accepting how he feels, and one shots with him and his children. I hope you enjoyed this however! I admit it was not one of my favorite stories to write, I felt like I failed with the plot lol but I tried and I wanted to finish it for those who read.

Thanks to everyone who stuck with it this far, no matter how crappy it was or wasn't. It will be marked as complete but I will occasionally add one-shots like I said so look forward to those!

Thanks and see you around!

B.D.