Chapter 5,

Kagome was slowly starting to doze off because Rin finally had fallen asleep. Before Kagome had a chance to fully fall asleep though, Sesshomaru walked in and looked at the little girl beside her in the bed. Sesshomaru smirked.

"I see Rin has taken a rather large liking to you." He said in his cold monotone voice. Kagome scowled at him and looked back at the sleeping Rin. She sighed and stared at the ceiling.

"She likes you more you know. All she did was talk about how great you were and how stupid Jaken is." She let out a small laugh. Sesshomaru walked over and distangled Rin from the covers without waking her. In fact Rin seemed to snuggle closer to him.

Sesshomaru stared down at the little girl and put her in a chair. Sesshomaru sat down in the other vacent chair by Kagome's bed. He looked over at her. "You will be almost fully healed in about two days. I shall train you with a sword that way you can defend yourself. After that it will be hand-to-hand combat."

Kagome nodded at him and started to get really tired. She looked over at Sesshomaru and smiled. "Do you think that you could get me a bow and some arrows?" She said softly. Sesshomaru stared at her and nodded.

"I can, but what would you need them for?" He asked, wondering how she remembered. Kagome looked at the ceiling. "I just have this feeling that I am supposed to use a b..."

Sesshomaru stared at her when he had noticed that she had fallen asleep before she had finished her sentence. He stood up and brushed a lock of hair out of her face and frowned at himself.

I should not be caring for this human, yet for some reason I just feel like I need to protect her. I see you are infatuated with this human. Go away, I do not want to talk to you. I have no need for your advice. But yet you do not know the reason you feel this way. You should make her your mate and see where you feelings go. Mate?..Never would I do such a thing! I think you are afraid that she will reject you?! Nonsense. She belongs with my half-brother, not me. Whatever she has no memories so why not create new ones? Sesshomaru growled at his inner demon. GO AWAY!!

He heard his inner demon huff in dissagreement but thought back. Mate? He quickly forgot the idea and went over to Rin. He picked her up and carried her to her room. He gently put her down and covered her up and then went to his own room.

He went to his room and sat on his bed, looking up at the ceiling. What if she did want to become my mate? He shook his head and sighed. He was becoming very soft. In the past he would have never thought about taking a mate but now he thought about it and over a human woman no less. He sighed again and went back into thought. Maybe I'll ask her and see what she says. If she says no I will not pressure her but if she says yes...I will decide then if she does. He layed back and finally dozed off.

Dream Sequence

Sesshomau was sitting in a tree on the edge of the river. He had left his castle under Jaken while he was away. He did not want to leave Kagome in Jaken's care but had to because there was much buisness to attend to.

Suddenly he caught a whiff of smoke and realized that it was coming from the castle. He ran back as fast as he could go and saw his castle in ruins. He looked around and saw Rin and Jaken dead. He walked around and did not see Kagome anywhere. Suddenly he herd a strangled cry and quickly ran to the back area of the castle and saw Naraku with one of his tentacles in Kagome's chest. She looked over at him and smiled, quickly dying.

Naraku saw him and pulled out the tentacle letting Kagome fall to the ground. Sesshomaru ran over to her and picked her up. She looked at him and smiled. "I love you." Then she passed on. Sesshomaru pulled out his tensaiga and tried to use it's power but he could not see the bringers of the afterlife. He looked over at Naraku.

"Why did you do this!" He yelled, he had never yelled before. Naraku let out an evil laugh. "Maybe if she had been more powerful this would not have happened. With that he vanished just as Inuyasha and his group appeared. Koga also appeared on the other side.

Inuyasha looked at him and spotted Kagome's body. He turned back to Sesshomaru and growled. "How dare you let this happen!" He charged Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru saw this and just let his brother beat him to a pulp. He had thought he loved Kagome and now she was dead. He heard a voice in his head all of a sudden.

"My lord, please wake up you are having a nightmare!"

End Dream Sequence

Sesshomaru opened his eyes and sighed, glad to be relieved of that horrible nightmare. He looked around to see who had woke him and came face to face with the one and only Jaken.

Sesshomaru quickly closed his eyes again and sighed. He looked over at Jaken. "You may leave now." he said coldly. Jaken nodded and quickly ran off in case he might get punished for waking Sesshomaru.

Sesshomaru got up and looked out the window. The sun had not even risen yet. He hooked on his swords and went to see how his half-brother and his group was doing.

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Inuyasha and the group were now only about four days away from the western lands now. Kikyo had not moved from Inuyasha's side since she had come with them.

They had ran into only a few weak demons and easily dispatched them. They walked all day and finally made it to a river. Inuyasha looked over at Miroku and Sango.

"I am going to catch some dinner. You two go find some firewood." Sango nodded but did not like being ordered around. Miroku grabbed her wrist and walked with her into the woods.

Kikyo looked over at Inuyasha who was trying to catch fish with his bare hands. She sat at the edge of the river bank and watched him.

"Inuyasha why are you acting so rude all of a sudden. You were not like this before Koga had showed up?" Inuyasha looked over at her and Kikyo noticed how sad his eyes were. Inuyasha ignored her and finished catching some fish. He put the fish on a rock and looked over at Kikyo.

"Because what Koga said was true. I should have protected her, instead I was mad at her and then all this happened." Kikyo walked over to him and smiled. She gently touched his face and looked him in th eyes.

"Maybe you should just give up on her. It would be bad for you to get hopeful then find out she is truly dead." Inuyasha stared at her and was then suprised when she leaned forward and placed her lips on his.

He kissed her back and they stayed like that until they had to break for air. Inuyasha smiled at her and she smiled back. Sango and Miroku were walking back when they had seen Inuyasha and Kikyo kissing. Lucky for Shippo, he had fallen asleep on Kirara, who was also asleep. Sango looked like she was going to go out there and beat Kikyo to a bloody pulp but Miroku grabbed her hand and shook his head. Sango nodded and they both walked out there like nothing had happened.

They camped out there for the night and fell asleep and did not have the luxury of having dreams.

Sesshomaru had watched what had happened between Kikyo and his half-brother. He inwardly growled at them. How dare he replace his miko with that dead miko. Now that you know that he does not want the girl anymore you are free to take her as your mate. Go away. I already said I will think about it, no Leave! His inner demon left and Sesshomaru ran back to his castle and went to his bedchamber to think about how he should go about asking Kagome to be his mate.

A.N

So everyone how did you like this chapter. I owe all my thanks to the people who have reviewed on my past chapters. I did not know if anyone opposed to me putting their names here so I will just give you my gratitude. Please review cause that is what gives me the inspiration to write this story. Sorry for it being so late but here it is at last. Chapter 5. And again thanks.