"Shippo respects you," Kagome told Sesshomaru.

"He knows his place."

She rolled her eyes, that again.

They walked the halls "Your home is beautiful."

"You do not have to leave," He told her,

She stopped "No offense Sesshomaru, but I don't want that station, especially when you do finally seek a mate, I don't want to be the mistress of the dark prince."

"You would have to be sleeping with me to be called the mistress" A slight tease in his voice.

She began to walk again "All the same, I won't impose" She didn't take the bait, though a new blush graced her face,

"You are her mother."

"And you are her father" She stopped again "Thank you."

"For what."

"For raising her, for being her father."

He was struck, she was thanking him?

"I'm quite happy."

"Yet you feel need to leave."

"We had a daughter, and there is where it ended, we want different things now."

"We want the same things, yet you wish to go running to the wolf."

"You want a baby maker; I want love."

"I want a mate" He clarified,

"That's why I will leave."

"And go to him?" They were walking again

"I don't know; I won't know till I go see him."

"So you would just give your body to anyone Miko?"

She spun around, her power cracking "Don't you dare, you know better than anyone that no one has touched me since you!" She didn't enjoy saying that out loud.

He walked up on her "Yet you are here telling me you wish to have more children with another"

"I want more children before my own daughter has her own I told you that"

"Then why go to him."

"Who would I go to? You? At least with Kouga, I would know I'm cared for" She was getting angry again "It's not any of your business."

"You are my business!"

"Why!" She yelled at him,

"Because you are the mother of my first born, I placed my seed in you to grow!"

"Sesshomaru things don't work like that, plenty of strangers have babies together, in the heat of the moment that means nothing afterward, I came to terms with that a long time ago."

Her telling him this, it made him mad, she always did rile him up,

"You would not have been pregnant had I not wanted you to be," He said it before he could call it back,

Silence met them for what seemed like forever,

"What?"

"I will not repeat it."

Her heart fluttered but then she calmed down, she was here for her daughter, and this would only get her hopes up for something that was long dead. She began to walk away,

"You love me," He said,

She stopped again, trying so hard to make her heart be still "I loved you" She said quietly.

Then she walked away to their daughter's room, and he stood still. She had just told him that she no longer loved him. But behind her daughter's do,
or Kagome was fighting to breath; her heart was beating hard against her chest, this was a lot harder than she thought it was going to be.

Maybe alone time with him was a bad thing, she was trying to be strong, but he was making her so weak.