"She wants to die?" Shippo yelped. "What…Why would she want to die? Again? She knows now, she could save herself!" Rin laid a restraining hand on his shoulder.

"Think a moment, kit." Sesshomaru said coldly. "If she lives, all of this-" His gesture encompassed the club and all the youkai in it. "-will never be. Kamiya ,Rilly, Goku, all of the children, may never be born. For all we know, we defeat Naraku because he spent his final moments killing the miko. Are you willing to risk all that, because you lost her five hundred years ago, and now, you've the chance to save her?"

Shippo glared at him, as Rin looked helplessly from her foster father to her boyfriend.

"Like it or not, Kagome is going to die in little more than a week." Kagura put in. "I don't like it either. She saved me. I don't want to let her die. I don't want it to happen. But it did. It's going to. There is nothing we can do."