Chapter 22

Kagome had made good timing. She knew that she would have picked up on her scent near her castle and knew that once that had been done she would not be going after her pups or her pack members. She didn't want Inuyasha here, she knew how it would hurt him, and she knew that he would only wish he had done something to stop her. 'I'm sorry Inuyasha, I'm so sorry but there is no other way, I have to do this.' Kagome thought as she finally reached the front of the castle. Not surprised to find the maid waiting for her to take her into the castle, Kagome grin as she took in a deep breath and said, "Well then I guess I am expected."

"The lady has informed me to tell you that she will hear what she had to say before killing you. It is the least she can do to show her respect." The maid stated.

"Respect is one thing, but to insult me is another?" Kagome growled out in slight anger.

"Take it as you wish Lady Kagome however my mistress Is waiting and I do not want to keep her waiting." The maid answered.

"Then go ahead and lead the way." Kagome answered as she turned into her human form. "but do go slow, I'm no longer that fast."

"As you wish Lady Kagome." She stated as she began to lead the way.

By the time they had reached the castle, the maid had been annoyed while Kagome was just smiling to herself. After being shown to the main room, where Lilith was waiting, Kagome took in a deep breath and surrounded herself in pure miko energy. After walking in and not being surprised by the poisonous gases that now filled the room, Kagome smiled as they were easily purify by the miko energy that protectively surrounded her. As she waited for all of the poisonous gases to be purified Kagome heard Lilith unmistakable voice ask, "Why did you come here? If you think this will safe you're intended and pup you have another thing coming to you my dear. I will kill them both."

"That's if you get the chance to…take a look around." Kagome replied as her proved to the demon before her that she was not going to die willingly or without a fight.

"So it seems, never the less, what is it that you wished to tell me before your death. I must tell you that I have the perfect thing for you miko." Lilith growled out in fury.

"First of all that you would not be losing anything since Inuyasha gave up his right as the second heir the moment I proved to remember him and everyone else I was around. Secondly that you did not have to try to use me when nothing was going to change." Kagome explained.

"My son, I'm sad to say, will not go back on his word, if was told by his father what his wishes were then he will stick to them without a second thought. As bad as that boy was treated by his father, he will follow through with his father's wishes and take everything from me." Lilith stated in a tired voice.

"Even if it is not what my intended wants? Even if it is not what I want?" Kagome asked.

"Why would my son listen to you? Why would he listen to the wish of a mere hanyou?" Lilith growled back as she turned to face Kagome with the poison filled needle.

With a grin on her face Kagome locked eyes with her and said, "Because I learned from the best. I gave him back his arm for a reason, he owes me one and I will make him pay up for it. Besides, I don't care what he or my intend think of you, I think that you are just trying to hang onto the something of the man you managed to fall in love with when you were not suppose to."

"What do you know? I used my son's father, I never loved him!" she yelled out in rage as she tried to keep herself from transforming so that she would not destroy a part of her castle.

"I don't believe that, you loved him, yet you lost him to a hanyou. A human that bore him a second son, a second heir that would ruin everything." Kagome went on as she kept her stand.

"Believe what you want but if that is all you had to tell me then you have wasted your time and your breath. Now it if time for you to die so that my son can keep me safe. I will not make him chose when there is something I can still do." Lilith growled as she approached Kagome with her weapon.

"Is this really what you wish to do?" Kagome asked as she took to her hanyou from once more.

"That form will not save you now." Lilith growled.

"Neither will killing me." Kagome shot back with a growl of her own as she began to get ready for the spell.

"It will not save me from my sins but at the very least it will allow me to keep what I have wanted and have had for so long." Lilith replied.

"You have a choice; trust me when I say that you will be able to keep what you have." Kagome growled.

"I've made my choice just as you have chosen to die here by my hand." Lilith growled out in anger.

"I did not come here to die…I came here to prove to you that we will take nothing from you." Kagome growled back before using her miko powers to keep the demon in place as she did her spell.

Sensing what she was about to do, Lilith threw her poison filled needle at Kagome she lost all of her ability to move. Just as the needle had hit her, Kagome had completed the spell. With a sad smile on her face, Kagome fell to the floor in tears as the poison began to overwhelm her while Inutaisho began to appear from the land of the dead. Just as he had fully appeared, Kagome locked eyes with her intendeds father and said, "Do not blame her, she was only scared, I don't blame her, I don't….so neither should you."

Inutaisho gave a small nod to the girl that fells to the floor filled with poison before locking eyes with Lilith and asking, "Do you have the cure she will need?"

"If I say no?" Lilith growled. She had power and knowledge but that did not mean that she was able to win a battle should she have one with the dead.

"Then you will only forsaken the bond between you and our son." Inutaisho answered.

"You have no right to call him your son when you have done nothing right by him." Lilith growled in rage. "The only way you ever treated him was like the heir you was…you never cared him the way I did!"

"Lilith I beg you, save this girl." Inutaisho stated.

"Why? Why a human, why did you chose to bear a hanyou child if you were going to die protecting the weakling." Lilith whispered. "Why could you not love me?"

"You came to be for power and glory and in return you give me a son to be an heir. I did not think you would want me to care for him the way you cared for him." Inutaisho answered.

"I will save her, so long as you allow me to keep what little I have left to remember you." Lilith whispered a she walked over to Kagome.

"You created her, she is like a daughter to you yet you do not think she can handle your poisons? You must have more filth in your work my dear Lilith." Inutaisho stated with a grin on his face.

Before she could ask what he talking about, Lilith looked at Kagome in pure shock. Not only was the poison not having any effect on her but it was only making her stronger. She had agreed to help this girl yet she had no idea that she would have given this girl the very powers she had. That she would be in a small way the daughter she never had or had the chance to have. After realizing that everything would be alright and that Kagome would be alright, Lilith locked eyes with her former lover and said, "You knew this would happen, you knew what I had done to her that is why you blessed her. So that she would have my gift with demon herbs and so that she would have a much stronger poison then our son. Why?"

With a grin on his face, much like Inuyasha's grin, Inutaisho smiled at Lilith and said, "Because this girl has the purest heart I have ever seen. She does not judge those by what they are but by who they are. She has the heart to wield the kind of power that can be trust in the hands of a pure heart."

"Are you not afraid that your hanyou son will taint her?" Lilith asked.

"It is because she loves my hanyou son that allows her to control such a power. Why do you think she has yet to use any of her demonic attacks? She has none, she will not have any until the jewel has been rid of."

"She's meant to be the vessel of the power that will be left behind when the jewel is destroyed." Lilith whispered.

With a grin on his face, Inutaisho turned to leave as he said, "I'm glad that you now understand. While you look after her, I will go and speak to our son. She will not weak up until I have finished what she has summoned me to do. I trust that you will keep her safe this time."

"You have nothing to fear now love…I'll watch over her as if she were my daughter." Lilith whispered.

Knowing that Izayoi would be understanding about the action he was about to do, Inutaisho turned back around, walked over to Lilith and gave her a gentle kiss before taking his leave. It was his only way of showing her that he really had cared for her while they were together for those short months; that he had seen her as something precious and that he had not shown it because of her feelings and thoughts of the matter in which they had come to be together. As she watched him walk away, Lilith took in a deep breath and let out along sigh. 'I've been a fool, this girl was right…I have been the fool...Kag…Lady Kagome of the western lands…you will be the omega of the Inutaisho clan from now on….I will willing give to you my power once you have started the family you rightfully deserve.' Lilith thought as she lifted the sleeping girl and carried her to one of the empty bed rooms.

Meanwhile, the lord of the west had just finished with his meetings and getting some work done. Although he had wanted to go and get Rin he knew that he could not. Not when his father's people had already accepted his half brother. If he were to prove to be unfit they had the right to call upon Inuyasha to take some short of action either against him or to put him in his please. Just as he had entered his father's study to hide for those that would only want more of him, Sesshomaru froze when he picked up on his father's scent. Before he could say a word he was not surprised when he heard his father say, "I'm glad that you are not getting along with your brother."

"Half brother, how are you here?" Sesshomaru growled. He knew what Kagome was going to do to convince his mother. He knew the spell she was going to do he just hadn't thought she was capable of having this much energy to allow his father to travel far from her body.

"She is a strong girl, not even I could have for seen the power that she was grant when she was turned." Inutaisho answered.

"What are you doing here Otu?" Sesshomaru asked.

"I have come to change that which I told you long ago. You are not to take your mothers power away. She is to keep what she has." Inutaisho answered his son.

"I understand, however what will you leave my brother?" Sesshomaru asked.

"I will leave to him what you do not wish to have." Inutaisho answered. "I know that I could have raised you better, I could have done better."

"You have to say nothing father, I understand what you meant to do and what it is that you wish for me to do with your lands. I will not disappoint you as your heir nor will I blame you for the method you chose to raise me."

With a grin on his face, Inutaisho faced his son and said, "I'm glad that you do not blame me but at least try to show a bit more of emotions…especially to those that treasure you the most."

Before Sesshomaru could even ask what he was talking about or what it was that he meant to tell him, he watched as his father disappeared from sight. He knew that he would not see him any time soon. He also know that he would have to go and et his brothers mate from his mothers castle. He knew what it meant and he knew that he would not have to hold on to her for long just like before. The miko was a hanyou now and was able to take care of her. 'I did not lose an intended…I am simply waiting for the right one…my brother is lucky and he should be thankful that miko did not leave him.' Sesshomaru thought with a grin on his face.

It had not take him long to find the others. While he had told them all what Kagome had planned on doing and what they had to do, Kikiyo glared at the hanyou she used to love. She had realized long ago that she had only loved him because he was a way out of a life she had never wanted. Just as he had finished telling the others where they were going and why, Kikiyo walked over to him and said, "I will be leaving your group now. I will go and make sure that my reincarnation is not in any danger. I have the cure if that is what she will need."

"I trust her; I know that she will be alright." Inuyasha growled.

"I have faith in Lady Kagome. I believe that she will be alright." Miroku added.

"I have faith; however I do not trust that all will go well." Kikiyo explained. "There are just some things that even my reincarnation and her big heart cannot heal or help."

"Lady Kikiyo maybe we should just wait for Lady Kagome." Kohaku was heard.

"I will not sit back and act as if she were just visiting her own time. She could be in a lot of danger and cannot be left alone." Kikiyo hissed. "Especially since she does not have a sealing sword as of yet."

"Do what you want, but I'm going to do what my intended asked of me. And if that means that I have to knock you out and make sure you don't go looking for her until she comes back." Inuyasha growled as he, for the first time since he had met the undead miko, bared his fangs at her.

"Are you sure you will be able to do such a thing Inuyasha?" Kikiyo asked.

"If he won't be able to such a thing then I will make sure you don't leave." Sango hissed out as she and Kirara made sure to prove their point.

"Do you all really have such faith in her?" Kikiyo asked in a confused voice.

"My Oka will come back…just you watch." Shippo was heard from Inuyasha's side.

With a smile on her face, Kikiyo met all of them and said, "Very well then, let's go back to visit my sister. I'm sure she will be waiting for us there."

With that said and everyone on the same page, the group of demons, miko, monk, demon slayer, and hanyou made their way back to the village they now called home. They all knew that Kagome would be safe; that she would later return to him but they would have to wait until she finished with whatever it was that she had to get done before meeting her friends and family at Kaede's village. If only they knew how long she would be taking.

A/N: Well its getting close to the end. The last two chapters will be up as soon as I can get them done and ready for you all. I will be posting another story as soon as I post the last two chapters of this story and I hope you all will give it a shot. Please let me know what you think so far…REIVEW, REIVEW, REIVEW!!!

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