Chapter 22: All's fair in love and war

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The sun burned brightly just like any other summer day. Its hot rays of light reflecting across the blood matted grass, it did not know of the war that had just ended. It did not know of the horrors this war left behind. Bodies lay split open across the summer field causing a scene of destruction and massacre. Kagome lay amidst it all bruised and bloodied but not dead. In her arms was a small light, bright and weightless. Its silver tendrils danced in her arms bringing tears to her eyes.

It was now that she could rest.

Now Kagome could die.

10 hours before

She was struck with grief this was true. She was scared this was also true. She felt the death of her child like a shadow on her every step, this most certainly was the truth. She and the others who had felt her pain that night had long since had the time to grieve. Today was a day for anger and hate. Today was a day for war.

She had been fighting a battle most her life. The battle to be all she could be as a child. The battle to get the pieces of the shikon jewel. Even the battle for Inuyasha's heart. War was nothing new to this miko. It was a second breath to her it was all she could feel now.

The anticipation was familiar; the adrenaline came almost like an old friend. She could breathe easy now. This mayhem was her home and more than ever she would welcome it with open arms.

She walked down the corridors of the castle remembering each and every crevice. She wanted to take with her the memories of this palace that she had grown so fond of. Inuyasha and the others were preparing the army for battle. Sesshomaru was bidding farewell to their children. With this thought she cringed it was painful to think of them. She had not said goodbye.

She did not have it in her to look at their flushed, chubby faces and lie to them saying that 'it would all be alright' nothing would ever be alright again. It would be long before they knew that.

She tried to focus on her anger and hate instead of her love for her children. It slipped through her body like a tendril of smoke working its way up spreading heat where it touched. She did not have time for the sentiments; there was only time for death and destruction.

She did not want to know of anything else. Nothing was more important than her revenge.

And she would have her revenge. She gave passing glances to the maids glancing at them to make sure none of them where frauds. It was then that she passed Rukia, and she felt that tug of emotion spill from her lips. But she quickly reigned in the gasp and regained her composer. No matter what impulse she had to run into the servant's arms and hug her close, she would not betray her fuel.

Anger would die in the throes of compassion and she knew that all too well. She picked up stride walking out to the battle grounds as quickly as her feet would take her.

"Ah" She sighed as she smelt the familiar sweat and heard the homey grunts from the men practicing there fighting skills. She could smell the burn of coal from the blacksmith and the sour of smell of metal being dried.

This is what she needed a constant reminder of the battle ahead.

She walked to the dojo till she found that she was all alone.

Only her and her weapons, she practiced. Thrusting the sword left then right. Up then over till she struck the wood with a hard thud. Casting her sword to the floor she through her fist forward and up and kept repeating till she could hardly breathe. She kicked the target of wood and punched it till her knuckles bled. She cried out when she could not break it. Thrusting her body forward she could not mover the pillar of wood. She was weak and feeble and she knew she would die in this battle. She pawed it and mauled it till she lay on the floor crying.

She cried for her loss. Finally she cried.

She could feel arms pick her up and embrace her. She knew Sesshomaru had come to her side to comfort her. She thought about jumping out of his arms and pushing him away like she had done since the Incident. But instead she grabbed him closer letting her sobs be silenced in his chest.

"I love you I do I love you so much!" She blubbered as she hugged him close.

"Please Sesshomaru I know you do not feel the same for me but I beg of you before we die lie to me; tell me you love me and only me!" She grabbed his kimono gasping into his neck. She felt his sorry gaze upon her and she did not look back instead she cried further into his silence.

To think that he hated her so much he could not even lie to her. He could not even utter words to her because the thought of loving her repulsed him so.

Quickly she grabbed his face kissing him deeply trying to imagine his love for her in his embrace. When she slid his garment to the floor she imagined he was whispering sweet nothings into her ears and when she made love to him in the dojo, she imagined he loved her. And when he came she imagined he said her name in the throes of his final lust.

But he had said nothing. Not until she had finished him and rolled off of his horizontal body onto the floor beside him.

"I will not lie to you Kagome."

She closed her eyes and bit back the sob of rejection that flooded her body. Anger was much preferred than this.

"I will tell you when you and I have made it back from this battle, when we are sitting here in this dojo with our children in your arms, I will tell you I love you Kagome Higrashi and will let you know that human, demon or otherwise there is no other woman for me." She looked over to him surprise.

Her wide eyes took in his unmoving face. He did not alter it was almost if he had never spoken at all.

But he did! He told her that he loved her and not just as a reassurance but as blatant truth. He the great demon loved her!

She gasped openly letting tears stream down her face. She kissed him tenderly laying beside him to bask in his warmth.

He had not meant to say that he loved her. When he saw her clawing at the wooden target with such despair he felt the tugging urge to hold her in his arms. She was his forever and for some reason he was content with that.

He felt empty now that he could not feel her. There mating bond was no longer and he could feel her absence to his very core.

So when he hugged her in the dojo that was the first time he had done so since the incident.

It was then that he knew he loved her, how could he not love her? She was all that he never wanted and everything he couldn't live without.

When he found out that she was pregnant he could feel his heart torn. He wanted his pup but he loved her so much that the thought of risking her death was too much. He would not live without her. Ever.

She had made love to him when she thought he rejected her. She cried tears for him. How could he not love her, she was perfect. She was not human; humans were crass, vile and hideous specimens. No she was a god, a race of her own where she was neither too pure or evil she was perfection manifested into this one being.

And this one being was created for the sole purpose to love him and only him for all eternity.

He was sure of it.

Sweat fell from her brow to her cheek, it trailed down her face bringing a bath of blood and dirt. She was admist the war sourounded by the cries of battle. "Sip!" She pointed her arow north and shot a shadow demon that was going to attack Inuyasha. "Clash!" As she brought down a man with a sword. They had been in war for one hour and 34 minutes and still she had not seen him.

"Sesshomaru!" She yelled as she pointed behind him. She watched him as he pointed his poison whip behind him killing the demon that was going to attack. Everyone was fighting hard to stay alive. But that was it. Staying alive. If they wanted to stay alive then they could have fled but they wanted revenge. where was he?

Dropping her sword she looked around the area. Demons where coming from every direction but none were him. "SHOW YOUR SELF!" She screamed as she ran to the other side of the feild. still nothing.

"Sesshomaru I can't do this if he will not come then I will not put you all in danger for this, he is a coward." She said as she approached the demon. He looked at her with cold eyes as he slashed the demon above him.

"Hm." He nodded as he walked away.

"This war is over tell your master he is a coward beneath scum like naraku I will not waste my breath." She said walking away.

"Is that right?" A dark voice taunted behind her. "My sweet pet I was only watching, to my amusment you did not see me." She stood still as she counted her heart beats. 1,2,3,4 and 1,2,3,4.

"You are remarkable my little pet." He said his voice becoming nearer. "I thought you where bueatiful before covered in your own blood but now I see you have become twice the bueaty."

"You disgust me I wish you would fall dead where you stood." Kagome snarled at him hunching her shoulders like a wild cat stalking her prey.

"Do you not mean fall dead where I stand?" He questioned intruiged by her gratimaticail error.

"No you filth I ment where you stood." She said her voice echoing behind him as he was struck to the ground. looking up he saw the miko with a strong force of power in her hand that must have been her pure energy.

"Ah not so fast my pet, I have yet to discuss my plans for you." He said appearing behind her grabbing her arms. Sesshomaru looked up and swiftly sliced the hand that dare touch his mate.

"Ah!" He screamed letting go of the miko to grasp his injured arm. "All you had to do was ask, vicous little beast."

"So where was I yes I was monolouging my plans for the destruction of all you hold dear, ah well firstly I am going to kill you and your mate and his brother and if they choose to fight then your little human friends as well." He laughed looking at the pale faces of said humans. "Then I am going to take my mate Yami and together we will start what should have been done all the decades past we will rule the western lands with a wild fire."

The group looked at him in surprise, here he was standing with a severed arm telling them calmly of his plans to kill them. He was insane.

Kagome choose this moment to let out a humorless chuckle "As if you could, tell me what is your name I have never heard of anyone like you and you intrigue me really you do, I am supposed to be angry and bitter about the fact that you raped me and killed my child-" her voice broke at the mention but she took a deep breath and continued her taunt "But you know what that seems to run in the family rape that is, so do not think you have broken me because I will never be broken now speak."

He looked at her in great bizarre this human who spoke so freely of things that most could never speak of. He was expecting the rage and the sorrow not the bitter calmness that she just showed.

"If you wish to know my name I will tell you, my name is Inufudo the great fire lord whom was thought to be killed by that vermin Inutashio!"He spit looking at Sesshomaru. "I took his mate from him because he was not the man I was, and in turn he choose to kill me or so he thought, nearly did, I was in a world between death and life for sometime before darkness came to me and told me of a way to harness my power and so here we are." He said looking at them with cold eyes.

"Leave us now and go where you came from and I shall let you live." Kagome spit back at him.

"Now, now child why would I even think of doing something like that?" He said lifting the back of his sword and striking her with it.

and thus the battle commenced.

There they lay in a pool of blood gasping for air all of them hurt. She looked around noticing her own wounds one major one being the hole in her stomach that Inufudo had caused. She didn't know how much time she had but she knew it wasn't much.

Getting up she looked over to Sesshomaru who was fighting his uncle. She knew that no matter his strength he couldn't go on like this, she had to do something but what? She had no more strength to fight. She laid down holding her stomach and prayed for everything to just stop. She never wanted this for her life she hadn't planned on falling through that well, she could have never imagined that beyond that well was a world of demons and evil.

The more she thought the more she knew that this would have never happened if she had not gone across that well. The shard would not ever be discovered and thus it couldn't be split and Inuyasha would still be on that tree and nothing would have changed. Life would have moved on and people would have lived well but it was because of her that everything was a mess like it was now.

She regretted it with all of her will. but still she couldn't bring her self to completely hate the situation. She had her children because of it. And to ask any mother to give up her children would be to ask her to wrench out her heart. It was something that you couldn't do.

looking over she saw Inufudo stop and she noticed that Yami had made her way to the battle grounds.

"My wife." Inufudo whispered reaching out to the former lady of the western lands. His eyes had glossed over in love. His hands trembled in her presence. His queen had returned.

"Inufudo." She said looking at him with longing. He took a step toward her wanting to embrace her with all he could. "My love you have returned to me, you are alive and well?" He said.

"Yes I am my dearest I have never stopped thinking of you." She said taking another step toward him. "I have come for you, all this was for you my love I never broke my promise we will rule together you wait and see." He said taking her hand and kissing it.

"Oh my love!" She moaned as she caressed his face. "I can't allow you to do this!" She said stepping away from him and over to her son. "What do you speak of?" He shouted at her anger seeping from his voice.

"No I cannot stand here and let you kill my son, as wretched as he is let him go take the wench for all I care but I will not let you have him." She said looking over at Kagome on the ground.

Sesshomaru growled behind his mother as Inufudo made his way to Kagome. "You mean this wench?" He said picking her up as her body laid limply in his arms. "Yes she is quite the beauty."

"You either kill her or let her go but she will not stay here I will not allow no husband of mine fornicate with another woman." She said walking around the great Inufudo.

"But it would be such a waste my love!" He whined.

"Then let her go she'd make a nice pet for me!"Yami said looking at Kagome.

'Take the bait! Take the bait!'

"No!" Inufudo said throwing Kagome on the ground looking at Yami. "I will not be bossed Yami, I will not be told what to do, I will have you and her and you will listen to me!" He said grabbing at said Yami.

Quickly she ground her claws into his face throwing him onto the ground. "Inufudo do not forget who I am, I will not be toyed with!" She said looking up and praying for a miracle.

grabbing his scared face he looked up at his former love with hate and hurt. "You are just like the rest of them!" He screamed at her. "You said that you loved me all those years ago and you tricked me getting pregnant with that bastard!" He sobbed into his severed hand leaving blood pooled in his eyes. "But alas it was me who was the fool, I died for you and now I think it is time for you to repay me!"

Looking up in fear she saw him rise to his full height.

Turning around she faced Sesshomaru briefly kissing him on his lips and cheeks. "I loved you more than I ever loved another man, don't ever doubt that you were the best thing I ever created, Sesshomaru I love you my son!" It was then that Sesshomaru watched as Inufudo burned his mother to ash.

Kagome felt her world move in slow motion.

Everything was going horribly wrong and she didn't have a remedy, nothing was evident on Sesshomaru's face that could reveal in the slightest that he was upset but had to be. That was his mother!

She closed her eyes laying down on the ground finally giving up accepting that maybe she was not going to make it, maybe it was all for the greater good let life take her away. it was meant to be.

"Mommy, mommy, mommy." A faint whispering echoed all around her. She opened her eyes only to see nothing but empty white all around her. She felt light and pure, in fact this whole room felt pure.

"Mommy." The voice got louder. She quickly turned her head looking around for the voice that called her. "Who are you?" She called out waiting for someone to help her out of this room.

"Please mommy don't give up." The voice said and this time it was right in her ear. turning she looked around becoming frightened. "Babies is that you, my darlings please come out stop scaring mommy." She said thinking of the twins that sat at home and waited for her to return.

It was then that she fell forward, down into a hole and when she landed she was in a garden that glowed like nothing she had ever seen. looking around she knew this was in fact a dream nothing could ever be this beautiful amongst the chaos that she had just been through.

The willow trees drooped over the pond like a caressing hand. The field covered in nothing but daisy's and baby's breath. and more so everything just glowed, she felt happy in this garden.

She laughed and danced in the field thinking that she would stay here forever and never return to her life of death and sadness.

"Mommy!" A little girl squealed from across the field. turning she faced a girl. She looked about 4 her skin was translucent. She was chubby and her face looked so familiar, her silver curls bounced around her head in a happy dance. "Mommy you came back for me!" She said running to Kagome.

What did she mean? "I am not your mom sweetie I am sorry but I only have one little girl and she's back at home and looks nothing like you my darling." She said bending down to get a better look at the little girl.

"Momma don't you remember me, you held me in your arms when I came to soon." She said looking at Kagome with Sesshomaru's golden eyes. Gasping Kagome fell on her bottom. She had his face, everything about her screamed Sesshomaru but still ... she was human. She couldn't be the child she held not to long ago it wasn't possible.

"No you can't be ... s-she died and she wasn't even ... your too old to be her." She said backing away from the little girl.

"Yes I am, but mommy when I came here I looked like this..." The little girl said turning into a silver light with tendrils floating everywhere. She looked like nothing she had ever seen, so beautiful that it brought tears to her eyes.

"But your human." She said as she cried out. Turning back into the girl that she was she replied "Yeah mama I am, breeding between a demon and a miko is way different that a demon and human your magic is unpredictable." She said smiling "Now no more questions come." she pulled Kagome onto her feet and walked away into a different room.

Sesshomaru saw as Kagome fell to the ground her breathing becoming shallow.

He couldn't have felt more helpless.

Looking back at Inufudo he knew what he had to do. Pointing his sword forward he felt a hand fall on his. Looking over he saw Kagome surrounded by a bright silver light. Taking her into his arms they both held his sword and pointed it to Inufudo for the last time.

The End

Okay so thats it the end no more Unexpected.

I would like to say thank you to all of those who reviewed and kept me going all the way through this you have no idea how much you guys helped me. This was my first story ever and I had no Idea what I was writing until I finished the chapter none of it was planned or anything I mean I had no idea that this was going to be the last chapter :)

But here we are. I would like to thank a reviewer who has been thanked in a previous chapter Hattaru. You write awsome reviews! Love you for that lol So Since I know some of you would hate me I took this as an opputunity to write a new story with in the same story ... Wierd but hey I'll give you a sneak peak ;) Look out for the Sequel! "Expectations"

Chapter 1 : Where did she go?

Disclaimer : I do not own Inuyasha.

Ok so please read this note before going on! If you dont things will be very werid to you right now. I told you in the last chapter that I am skipping ahead of everything. I meant that I WAS SKIPPING AHEAD OF EVERYTHING. so do not bitch me out.. I am taking to you up after the war. where everything changed and if I did countiue this all on this story then it would be very long and never fnish so heres the deal this is the intro to the second book of Unexpected... :)

"Inutashio the great dog demon came and killed his brother once more, the world had regained order and life and gone back to what it once was."

She woke with a startle. Surrounded by the silent darkness she sat up trembling. 'where was she' and 'what happened to her mate?'

The room was Frigid and vacant, her stomach felt jumpy and her hands clammy, she could feel the cold sweat break out, her skin quickly becoming wet with perspiration. Trailing her hands down to her legs she began rubbing them creating a warm friction.

She remembered following her daughter into a room and then blinding whiteness. She could see glimpses of the battle and she knew three things, 1. Inutashio had some how come and defeated his brother. 2. Yami was dead. 3. The others where safe.

She patted her hands down onto the sheets beneath her. 'A bed?' turning her body she let her feet drop onto the cold floor. She lifted her arms forward feeling her way around the room until she reached a window. Quickly making way of the curtains she gasped at the scene, the expanse of pale green spread out on the midnight floor her wandering eyes found the familiar shed and koi pond, it brought back all the memories of her childhood and she knew she was safe. It was her shrine grounds.

Looking around the shadowy room she tried to understand how she had been returned to the present era. Admist all that chaos she had somehow been returned to her home in the future how was that even possible. She took painful steps out of the room and into the empty hallway, before going to the bathroom she peeked into her brothers room checking to see if he was alive and well. He and her mother where curled up on his twin bed her short curls tickling her tip of his chin. Both of them looked so peaceful she forgot how long it had been since she had last seen them.

Quietly closing the door she continued her escaped to the bathroom he hands fumbling for the light switch.

It was there that she stopped to look into the mirror and see herself... Perfectly fine? She recalled having bruises and a big gaping hole in the center of her chest. What happened?

The war should have left her dead she should have been killed. 'what about my mate where was-' She wondered. She found she couldn't recall his name or anything about him. What was he again? A demon or a human. What was demon? Did they even exist?

What was happening and how did she get here.

Walking into the kitchen she looked at the clock it was 3:00 am! what was she thinking mom would kill her if she wasn't in bed, she had school tomorrow!

She left the kitchen to lay in her pink fluffy bed once more, dreaming of a place far away where a strange young girl fell in love and lived happily ever after.