Tears filled her eyes. Her hand was still touching her lips. She turned and looked at Kikyo as she came walking up. "What does this mean?" She asked,

Her thoughts were cut short by Inuyasha, who came running to her. He stopped when he noticed her up. Kagome looked at him, and him at her.

"Inuyasha!"

"Kagome!" She tried to get up and run to him but fell, but he was quickly by her side. They hugged, and Inuyasha looked back at Kikyo. "Who?"

"You know who," Was all she said; just then, Kirara landed with Miroku and Sango. "Lady Kagome!" Miroku said, shocked. Sango wasted no time in running to her friend. Kagome hugged them all, glad to be awake but so confused. Something seemed to be bothering Kikyo, though, and Kagome picked up on it. She pulled away from her friends and walked to Kikyo, who was looking up at the sky. "Kikyo?"

"What?"

"Why, why do I feel so empty?" She knew that Kikyo would understand her. Kikyo's eyes met hers.

"He does not yet love you,"

Kagome blinked; she knew who 'he' was. "Oh," She said softly, looking down.

Kagome thought for a moment before turning around.

"You must love him," Kikyo said, and Kagome stopped.

"I can't make his heart feel something it won't."

"The bonding of souls is not easily broken," Kikyo stated.

Kagome had a lot to say to Kikyo, but she couldn't do it right now. She was tired, as if she had not been sleeping for days on end.

Her anger with the woman would have to wait for another day.

Kagome turned and walked away.

He stood in a large tree, his eyes watching, his ear listening. After she was gone and after Inuyasha ran after her, and even after the slayer and monk followed, Kikyo looked up to the sky at him. She soon left as well, leaving him to stare at the empty space.

Kagome wanted to go home, But Inuyasha and her friends begged her to stay just until they told her of what happened in her sleep. She sat with them as she was told of Koga, and warned of the Lord of the North. They didn't say much of Sesshomaru's visits. After telling her odds and ends, they ate, and they all settled down. Her friends thought she would be there in the morning. But as soon as they were asleep, she was gone; she wanted to go home.

Kagome could feel a storm coming; she ran fast and hard. She missed her mom and her brother and even her crazy grandfather. Kagome made it to the well and didn't even slow down; she had almost made it to the rim of the well when she stopped.

"Leaving Miko?"

Kagome looked back. "Im going home,"

Lighting came, big and bright. Sesshomaru walked past her and to the well he then looked down. He then looked at her, and the lighting hit again, showing her face. Their eyes locked for a moment, and then it started to sprinkle, and that's when he turned and walked away. Kagome held out her hand and was about to say stop, but then what? So she put her hand down.

Sesshomaru stopped and looked back, but she was gone.

He could no more make her love him than she could make him love her. But his dislike of humans did not carry over to her. He wondered for a moment if this wasn't his father's doing.

Sesshomaru knew love was real; he could not deny it, no one could, demon, human, Kamis, no one. Sesshomaru was just one of those demons who could live without it. Who needed such complications? Of course, he loved Rin, and though he never told her, he knew she knew. He was not a romantic and would never be; he wasn't going to woo her.

They didn't love each other. Could they? How much time would it take, and did she have enough of it? He should end the one named Kikyo.

He spent so much time being upset over his father and brother, and now his path was the same no matter how hard he tried not to travel it.

As if love would let him decide because one thing Sesshomaru and love had in common: they both don't care, they both are going to have it their way, and nothing can stop either of them.

The heart, or at least in his case, instinct, wants what it wants, and oddly he felt slightly possessive over her; of course, he could not deny her power, her knowledge, the future, and the need to change it but at the same time he felt he could have dealt with in with his own power, he didnt need hers.

But according to the soul bond, he needed her, and she most definitely needed him. But as of right now, neither had faith in each other. No communication, no trust.

But how could she trust a heart she didnt think he had?