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He was almost back to Kaede's village when an arrow clipped his shoulder. He stopped running and found a furious Kikyo, bow in hand, glaring at him from a few feet away. He dodged another arrow only to be captured by her soul collectors.

"Does that girl mean more to you that I do?" She asked in a tone that almost made her seem alive again.

"You should know the answer by now," he spat.

"That's too bad Inuyasha... Your heart shall still be mine." She smiled wickedly and made her way to Inuyasha who was struggling to get away from her collectors.

"Inuyasha!" A voice called from the distance followed by the sound of whipping wind.

"Ahhh!" Kikyo screamed out in surprise as the hiraikotsu ripped through her torso. She lay there twitching barely alive until Miroku came over and purified her body with a sutra and prayer. The souls completely left her body including the other half of Kagome's while her eyes became glazed over and her body started to crumble into dust.

I stared at my hands as they glowed a pale yellow light. Moments before strange orbs of light entered the room while I was bathing. They fused with my body and ever since then I've felt simply whole. I yawned and waited a few seconds to make sure it wasn't some evil curse that would take my life any moment. I stayed that way until I heard a knock at the door.

"Who is it?" My request was met with silence until Suina spoke up quilling my fears of who I thought it was.

"It is I, Suina. Lord Sesshomaru requests to speak to you."

I cursed under my breath and rushed out of the bath to search for a towel. "Just a minute please!" At the last second I found a towel right before Sesshomaru opened the door and gave me an annoyed look. "I'm sorry I was looking for a towel!" His eyes looked me over once before he met my eyes again.

"You're glowing..." He stated as he watched my face closely.

"I think I know why." I met his gaze and he raised an eyebrow expecting an answer. "Kikyo's dead."

"Where is Inuyasha?" I guess I had forgotten to tell him that Inuyasha left. It might have helped my situation earlier.

"He left to go get my friends. I figured the more of us the better." I pulled the towel tighter to me as he inspected me more closely than before.

"Your cuts are healed." He was in front of me before I could look at my legs where the biggest scars had been. He was right and my legs and arms where scratch free. I stepped away from him and brushed a hand through my hair nervously. Things seemed a bit odd after what happened earlier in his room.

"I guess all of her power transfered back to me," I tried to sound casual about it. I looked up at him for a moment and noticed those same burning eyes from before. There was all the want in the world and yet I had a horrible feeling about it. He was the type of guy to take something without asking just because he wanted it, and then throw it away. Though that wasn't completely true. She recalled his words, "Refuse me." in which my response must have counted as a submission.

"What troubles you?" He wasn't looking at me when I glanced up which made me feel a little better, but I didn't know how to really answer his question.

"What happened- before... I just- wanted to know what it meant," I said slowly, full of doubt.

"Did I not make it clear before?" He grabbed my wrist and pulled me to him, making my world blur. When my vision cleared he was inches from my face. "Refuse me if you wish."

"As if I could ever refuse you..." I whispered more to myself than him.

He took those words as an invitation and kissed me with a fierce passion that had grown since the last time we kiss only hours ago. My world blurred, but this time there was no refocusing. I felt the sleep I'd been fighting all day seep over me and turn my world pitch black.

He held the sleeping girl in his grasp and brought her over to the bed. From the moment he had entered the room he'd sensed the miko's fatigue. He was surprised that she was still awake when he'd first arrived. He blamed Inuyasha for her nightmares and lack of sleep. Before he could lay her down on the bed she rapped her arms around his waist as she snuggled closer to him. He looked down at her peaceful face and decided not to disturb her.

"Sleep well, miko..." He whispered in her ear as he settled on the bed with her still clinging to his waist.

"Inuyash you idiot!" Miroku walked up to him and hit him with his staff.

"Ow! What was that for?" He cursed as he rubbed his head

"We heard about what you did to Kagome." Miroku glared at Inuyasha.

"Oh..." A sad look came over his face replaced quickly but arrogance.

"Let's go Miroku," Sango spoke up behind him.

"Come on Inuyasha," his tone was still full of disapproval but that was something Inuyasha was going to have to put up with for a while.

"How did you guys figure out Kagome went with Sesshomaru?" Inuyasha asked.

"Lord Sesshomaru sent an informant," Miroku replied as Shippo crawled up onto his shoulder to glare at Inuyasha.

"Kagome better be alright Inuyasha!" Shippo yelled trying to mask his worry.

"Oh shut up," he growled.

They all started walking towards Sesshomaru's castle leaving the corpse of Kikyo behind to become dust in the wind. Ruby eyes watched the group disappear as an evil smile appeared on his lips. His plan had worked perfectly as usual and Kikyo was now dead. The consequences were left to become dust along with the fallen miko as the last bit of her counterfeit corpse drifted away on a small breeze.

To be Continued...

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