A/N: I'm back! Did you miss me? Sooo... the last chapter... yeah that was a thing. I should apologize I really should. But to be honest I really wanted to mark it as complete and leave it at that. And then my friends told me to mark it as complete but then continue and writing and then have you guys wait like five months and then update like BAM! But what can I say, I'm a sucker for happy endings. I would however like to apologize to some of the people that reviewed. I'm sorry that I caused you guys some of you to scream or broke your hearts. And I really am sorry to Forevermore21, you said this story was getting you through finals and I left you hanging and I'm sorry, that was a shitty thing to do. But I hope you got through finals just fine.

Anyway I would like to point out that I tried to write this chapter in third person, which was really hard but I guess that's what happens when you kill off your point of view. This is completely unedited so it might be really bad, let me know if you think so.

So just to wrap things up: I do not own Inuyasha.

Enjoy.

Chapter Twenty

"Nooooooo!" Rin shouted, it was loud but nobody seemed to hear her. They were all focused on Sesshomaru and Nicole. Rin felt tears fall from her eyes and again she shouted, "Lord Sesshomaru, stop it!" but again he ignored her. He was still gripping Nicole's neck and snarling. Rin did the only thing she could do. She ran up and tried to pull Lord Sesshomaru's hand away from Nicole's neck.

When Sesshomaru was touched he turned his red eyes on Rin and growled. But Rin didn't back down, she continued to pull at his hand. It continued that way until one sound rang out above all of the others, Kagura's laugh. She was laughing like she was enjoying what was happening. And slowly it brought Sesshomaru out of his trance. The red started to fade from his eyes as he listened to the woman laugh.

Sesshomaru looked down at the body under his, the poison could still be heard sizzling its way through her body. He pushed himself from her and grimaced as if he were disgusted. As soon as he stood up Rin dropped to her knees beside Nicole. Sesshomaru chose to ignore Rin asking her to wake up. By this time it seemed that the others had finished off the demons that had been guarding the hut and had seen enough to know what happened to Nicole.

Sesshomaru turned his eyes to the laughing woman. "Does it amuse you to have fooled this Sesshomaru."

Kagura continued to laugh until finally she said, "You have no idea." Sesshomaru glanced down at the dead body beside him for a second but Kagura saw it. She mock pouted, "Oh you did really care for her didn't you?" Sesshomaru's eyes narrowed in response. Again Kagura smile, "Don't give me that look. I'm not the one that killed her, that was all you."

"She was a traitor that needed to be disposed of," there was no emotion in Sesshomaru's voice when he spoke.

"No," Rin said facing Lord Sesshomaru, "Nicole was not a traitor!" Sesshomaru looked down at her but made no comment. Instead he turned his attention back to Kagura who had started laughing again.

"You really should get your facts straight before killing someone, you know." Sesshomaru showed no emotion on his face as he stared her. "And you really should listen to that brat," she laughed again, "Kanna." Kanna stepped out of the hut. Her face held no emotion as she moved to stand beside Kagura.

Kagome gasped, "No."

"Yes," Kagura smiled and looked at Sesshomaru. Once again she mock pouted, "Oh, don't tell me you still don't understand," she paused. "Oh," she shook her head, "you don't." The pout vanished from Kagura's face and was replaced with a grin that could only be described as 'shit-eating', "Well then let me explain. Kanna took Nicole's soul and has it in her mirror, which allowed me to do this. Dance of the Dead!"

As soon as Kagura flicked her fan Nicole's dead body stood up, causing Rin to fall back and gasp. Sesshomaru grabbed Rin and moved her behind him then he looked back to Kagura never letting his confusion show on his face. Kagura laughed, "Still don't get it? When did you become so slow? When she's like this I control her. I can make do anything I want. Even if she doesn't want to, like for example, hold a knife to Rin's throat."

Finally Sesshomaru understood. The growl he made was one of barely contained fury. He really had been a fool, he had let himself be tricked. His eyes turned red and he launched himself at Kagura, but Kagura was quicker. "Ah ah ah," and with a flick of her wrist she had Nicole's lifeless body standing in front of her like a shield.

Sesshomaru couldn't stop the momentum of the attack and it caused him to leave a deep gasp in Nicole's shoulder. She didn't even flinch as she took the damage, she just stood there looking at nothing. Standing so close to her, Sesshomaru could still hear his poison sizzling from her neck. That only made him angrier, he looked past Nicole and snarled at Kagura.

Kagura smiled, "Don't pay attention to me, it's her you should be worrying about," she raised her fan.

Suddenly Nicole's body reached out and sliced Sesshomaru across the cheek with its nails. Sesshomaru jumped back, and Kagura laughed. Again moved her fan and again Nicole's body attacked Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru dodged all of the attacks and made no move to attack her. Finally he seized Nicole's arms and he stood there for a moment staring into her lifeless eyes. Suddenly the body sagged and he had to move fast to catch her before she hit the ground. He picked her up and held her bridal style.

A strong gust of wind came and went and when Sesshomaru looked up Kagura and Kanna were flying away on a feather. He growled under his breath.

"Kagura come back here and fight!" Inuyasha shouted.

"I was never here to fight, only to get rid of Sesshomaru's weakness," Kagura laughed from the sky.

"Oh no you don't," Kagome strung an arrow on her bow and took aim, "you are not leaving here with Nicole's soul in your mirror." She let the arrow fly, it was surrounded in spiritual powers, and sure enough it hit its target. But instead of hitting the mirror it went inside of it, and for a second nothing happened.

But then a cracking sound could was heard, and suddenly there was a stream of white light coming from the mirror. The light flowed from the sky and swirled around Sesshomaru and Nicole before finally settling on Nicole. It seemed to make her glow but did nothing else.

Kagura scoffed and flew away.

Inuyasha and the gang ran over to where Sesshomaru was now standing and staring down at the body in his arms.

"Why isn't her soul going into her?" Rin asked in a small voice. But no one answered her, it was almost like no one heard her. Rin turned her gaze to Sesshomaru, but he just continued to stare at Nicole's lifeless body. After several minutes Rin had given up on anyone giving her an answer, that's when Miroku spoke.

"Her soul is not reconnecting with her because she's dead."

Rin shook her head, "No! They stole her soul and that's what made her hold a knife to my throat, but now she has her soul back."

Inuyasha's gang all turned to look at the little girl, they all knew that someone would have to tell her but none of them wanted to. Finally Kagome bent down so that she was eye level with the little girl, "No Rin, Nicole's really dead because-"

"Because I killed her," Sesshomaru said cutting Kagome off. Sesshomaru was silent for a minute before he spoke again, "She's dead because I strangled her, because I poisoned her with my claws."

"Then heal her! Your saliva is an antidote to your poison, so fix her!" Rin shouted at the dog demon.

Sesshomaru was silent for a minute, his face completely blank until finally he lifted Nicole's neck to his mouth and began to lick. He knew that it wouldn't do any good but he would try for Rin. He cleaned all of the poison out of the wound but nothing changed. He lowered Nicole away from his mouth and let her lay limply in his arms.

Rin let out a cry and starting sobbing. Sesshomaru momentarily let himself realize just how attached she had become to Nicole, he didn't see Rin cry often. That only added to the horrible feeling he had growing inside of him. How could he let Naraku deceive him in that way, with just a few simple accusations. How could he let himself doubt Nicole for even a second, hadn't she proved how much she loved Rin. And yet he still let himself be fooled and he knew exactly why he had let be fooled. Because he, Lord Sesshomaru, had been afraid. Afraid that everything that was happening was too good to be true and now he had killed her.

Sesshomaru growled at himself, he would save her. He would! Without another thought Sesshomaru took to the air and flew.

A/N: So what do you guys think? Good? Bad? Terrible? Should I end it here? I am sorry to say that this story will be coming to a close soon, I just have to think up an ending first... anyway until next time... :)