Jewel Of Inu...

She did it.

She made the ultimate sacrifice, the most pure, the most unselfish wish one could make. Kagome gave her body, her heart and her soul away for others, what was more pure than that, nothing.

Kagome opened her eyes and looked at the fading world around her, to her friends. She gave a meek fading smile "I love you all" She told them.

"Kagome! What did you do!" Inuyasha screamed,

"I made a wish" Was her simple response.

They watch as Kagomes life and body faded in till she became nothing more then glitter in the air. Her soul swirled in the wind and then it was forced into the jewel. The jewel then fell lifeless on to the ground, his bright color going dull.

"Kagome, Kagome, Kagome!" Inuyasha screamed,

What had she done?

"Inuyasha, do not do this, Kagome gave her life for us"

Inuyasha swirled around "What do you mean?!" He asked with grief, how could they not care?

"Inuyasha, I believe I know what her wish was" Miroku informed him,

Sesshomaru stood, he had a good idea of what the woman did, but he waited to see if he was correct.

"Inuyasha, Kagome wished her life away to save us, we should honor that by respecting her, she would not want us to morn this"

He knew it was true, Kagome would want them all to be happy, not crying with pain and hurt. They all cared, they all hurt, but they were acting as they knew she would want them to.

"She is still with us Inuyasha, Kagome is not dead" Miroku had to remind him.

"Not dead!" He yelled "No she's not dead, it's worst than that, she is stuck in this damn jewel!" He snapped as he went to pick the damn thing up. But to all their shock, the Jewel snapped at him, holy power stung his hand.

"What the hell?" Inuyasha asked confused "Did Kagome do that?" He whispered,

Sesshomaru rose a eyebrow "Monk"

"Hai Sesshomaru-Sama?"

"Retrieve the necklace"

This would be a test.

"Hai" Miroku reasoned and went to pick it up, but again the jewel snapped at him, biting his hand. "It is not Kagome, it's the jewel, but with her hold power being in it, it has more of a sting" Miroku held his newly burnt but hole free hand.

One by one they all tried to pick it up, the slayer, the fox, even Jaken, but the jewel all bit them.

"What are we going to do now?" Sango asked,

"We cant leave it here" Inuyasha spoke, it was Kagome after all.

Miroku eyes fell on the emotionless Lord, half brother to Inuyasha. His eyes were on the jewel as if in deep thought.

"Lord Sesshomaru, perhaps you have insight as to what we should do?"

Sesshomaru looked up at them, what did he care what they did or what happened to the damn thing?

No, he could not say that, she had given her life for all of them, the world, his ward and dare he admit even him? She deserved the utmost respect and to deny that would be shame on his honor as a man and great demon Lord. So his mind made up, he knew what to do and gratefully it did not evolve any of them.

"I care not what it is you do, built a shrine if you will, but I will be taking the jewel with me"

He bent and with easy he picked the jewel up and looked at it.

"What!" Snapped Inuyasha,

"Foolish little brother, those who thirst for it's power can not touch it, that half breed is the protection the woman placed on it to protect your pathetic life, so that you may have the life you wished, the dead woman is near, perhaps you should tell her the girl was not, after all her reincarnation. After all is the miko Kikyo not the one you wanted"

Inuyasha was so angry yet so shocked by his brothers words that he stood still, anger shaking through his veins yet due to the shock, he could not act on it.

Sesshomaru placed the necklace around his neck and under his top, she gave her life to protect them, and now he felt it his duty to protect her, or more then jewel, he after all was the only one who could touch it,

He had no need for the damn thing, or at least he didn't before.

Little did he know that the name given to the jewel would soon be forgotten and replaced.

Soon the powerful Lord of the West would thirst for the jewel more than any other person before him, yet not for it's power and little did either of them know, it would be that thirst that could break her bonds to it.

But would Sesshomaru discover that and would he break the chains holding her to it?

Ying and Yang and the Kamis and every Miko before her sure hopped so, after all there would never be another Kagome and there would be no one stronger then Sesshmarua and he set the course the moment he picked her up, but in the end it would be the choices they make that would set fate.

Sesshomaru had all the power in the world after all, and all because he now had something to protect.