For She Is The Last by Yuiitsu Sakka

Complete yet Incomplete

Blinded by the snow, Sesshoumaru, small, young, and alone, wondered aimlessly through the blizzard. The snow was about waist deep and temperatures were dropping fast. Suddenly, in a flash of white, he was under the snow with no way to get out.

He had been separated.

'Mother...'

That's right, he remembered the hunting party. They had been ambushed.

'Father...'

He wasn't there to protect them from the panther demons. And Sesshoumaru ran.

'I'm sorry...'

Then, just when he thought he would die from hypothermia, a hand reached through the snow to grab him. He was lifted into warm arms and before he fell to unconsciousness, there was one thing he heard the stranger utter.

'To repay me, Sesshoumaru, you must save her, you must find the last...'

Seshoumaru awoke from the dream in a slight daze.

'How very odd, I have not dreamt of that since I was young.'

Standing, he jumped to the top of the tree and looked to the horizon.

'Something is amiss...'

Kagome looked at the jewel in her palm. Its clear pink innocent glow twinkling happily at her made her whole insides fill with joy. The jewel was complete, Naraku was dead, and Kikyo was alive.

It just made her that much happier when Inuyasha had given the Shikon no Tama back to her, telling her that he decided being all demon wasn't such a good idea and now that Kikyo was alive again, bringing her back would kind of be a moot point.

She was happy, she really was, it was just that... she couldn't help but feel something missing, like she was alone in the world.

Kagome threw the jewel into the air and snatched it back up, holding it tightly to her chest.

'I should never, EVER, do that again.'

Sighing, she got up and started down the road back into the village.

Her attention quickly snapped back into focus when a dark cloaked figure appeared on the road before her.

Clutching the Shikon even tighter, if at all possible, she suddenly felt a warm sensation wash over her. Then she heard the stranger speak.

"Fear not my child, for at last, I have finally found you."