The other ends of the spectrum by Chante

Crimson tears

There was so much blood. It surrounded my vision, the crimson of the once pristine field bled into the red that clouded my sight. Is this what it feels like to go insane? It's not the kind that Kagome all ways was, her zany and fun insanity. She was so young. So fresh to the world, and now...

 Her battered and beaten body lay mangled on the ground and I felt my eyes water at the sight. I had been to late, and my greatest fear had been realized. The first tear slipped down my face, I rushed to her.

 "Kagome.” I said at a loss for words.

 She smiled at me. She was the only person who could smile as they were dieing right before my eyes, a small stream of blood pouring from her lips at that small action. That small twitch of her lips brought another tear from my eyes, myself uncaring what anyone thought. Kagome was my mate, and I had the right to cry.

 “Sesshomaru, my love” Kagome's voice creaked even as she spoke. Her smile was met with a stream of tears. She laughed remorsefully, and I couldn't help but think what an amazing person she was.

 “Please don't leave me” I croaked, wanting to pull myself together, but couldn't find the will to do so. After finding my home burned to the ground and my daughter slaughtered, I could no longer hide my emotions that so wanted to pour out of me.

 “I'm sorry. I couldn't save our baby.” Kagome cried. She skirted around telling me what I all ready knew. The person who did this left her alive so I could see her. This was a fate worse than death.

 She looked at me again. The look that told me of what as to happen. She was resigned to her fate, ready to accept the death that Kami had laid before her. I felt my face screw up in pain. I reached for my sword, and unsheathed it. I willed it with all my might for it to work, but it refused. It would revive my ward, but not my mate? Oh kami how cruel you are.

 A smile broke out on her face again. She knew that it wouldn't work, it was the twinkle in her eyes that told me.

 “I'm sorry Sesshomaru. I t-t-tried. I-I real-really did.” Her voice broke as the tears leaked from her eyes. The blood on her face made the tears red. She had taken her last breath. Her eyes stared at me, unblinking and blind and it unnerved me. I closed her eyes with my blood stained fingers, crying at my loss. He had won. He had beaten me. A humorless bark of laughter left me as I flicked Tokijin out of its sheathe.

 With a flick of my wrist, my head laid next to my body, laying over that of my mate, whom I would follow to the ends of the earth, and to the next life.