Kagome stared at Sesshomaru, her's eyes filling with tears.

That's part of Inuyasha? No!

Anger, sadness, fear, every emotion Kagome had been burying burst to the surface and for the first time in months, she attacked a demon. Hands glowing purple, Kagome reached for Sesshomaru's arm.

"You'll never hurt anyone with these claws again!" she screamed

Even though she made contact, her abilities did no more than burn his suit jacket off. His patience coming to an end, Sesshomaru flung Kagome on to the bed so forcefully the wood of the frame splintered and broke.

"Are you so naïve?" He shouted at the dazed Kagome, "I was the one who killed Magatsuhi and released your power! You owe me that and your soul knows it even if your mind does not. Your spiritual abilities can never hurt me!"

Refusing to acknowledge what she knew was true, Kagome pulled herself from the bed, looking around, she grabbed a piece of wood, purified it and threw it as hard as she could at Sesshomaru's chest. He picked it out of the air and crushed it into dust.

"Stop this!" he snapped, "I made a promise to Inuyasha to protect you, but I will defend myself if the need arises!"

"How dare you say his name!" Kagome shrieked, "You murdered him and now you're pretending to honor him!"

"I did not murder him! I put him out of his misery!"

"His or yours?" she accused as she picked up another piece of wood.

Deciding to end this pointless fight, Sesshomaru moved quickly and was in front of Kagome before she could blink. He grabbed her wrist, pulled the wood out of it and pushed her onto the bed.

"You will stop attacking and listen to me! I know what Shippo told you, but it is what he did not tell you that is important!"

Kagome looked at him expectantly, she still wanted to kill him, but her powers were useless so she decided to let him speak.

"Five hundred years ago," he began, "After you left, Inuyasha spent years looking for a way to get to you. He traveled from shrine to shrine hoping to find some clue as to how the two of you could travel through time in the first place. Unfortunately, no one had ever heard of it before. Eventually, he realized he would never find the answer, so he went back to the old woman's shrine and helped protect the village and Rin. He spent a decade as her guardian, making sure she was never hurt or abused. Then one day, Inuyasha and Rin came to me and asked my permission to marry."

Kagome went white, she didn't want to hear anymore but she had to know the rest.

"I agreed to it, Rin was someone I cared for and I knew Inuyasha could protect her better than anyone. They had many children and lived long lives. They were happy but they did not love each other. Rin married Inuyasha because he reminded her of me, Inuyasha married Rin because she reminded him of you. After Rin died I stopped visiting the village and attended my own business, content on never returning. Then one day that parasitic creature Myoga came to me with a message; my worthless half-brother was dieing and his last request was to see me. When I arrived, Inuyasha was a sickly old man, a shell of what he had been, but all humans become that I suppose. He told me that he had never stopped loving you and though he could never be with you he wanted to be able to protect you. He knew I was immortal so he asked me to look over you in the future and I agreed on one condition."

"And what condition was that?" Kagome said, swallowing the lump in her throat.

"That he allow me to do the one thing I never could regardless of my efforts."

Kagome stared at him confusion in her eyes.

"That I get to finally kill him and rid the world of his worthless existence! He was dying very slowly and painfully so he agreed to it."

"So," she replied, tears dripping down her face, "you used me as an excuse to kill the man I love."

"He was dying you fool!" Sesshomaru snapped "He wasn't going to last the day let alone five hundred years!"

"But Shippo said he found a way to-"

"I know" he said "but the only way for Inuyasha to become a Hanyou again was to allow himself to be filled with such bitterness and anger towards his situation that he lured bottom feeding demons and allow them to devour his soul. Like Naraku and Magatsuhi did."

"So you killed Inuyasha, and then what"? Killed his children? Decided to wipe his entire existence off the face of the planet."

Sesshomaru smirked.

"No," he said, "had I done that, I would've broken my word to protect you."

Kagome looked confused.

"You see Kagome,"he continued "Rin and Inuyasha's offspring have been living and operating that shrine for five hundred years."

"You mean?"

"Yes, Inuyasha is your ancestor."