"We won!" voices cheered as Inuyasha hoisted the jewel up in the air.

One lone voice was missing. The battle had been too fierce to know who was

down or up. The realization that someone might be missing filled their hearts

with greif.

They looked around and checked...

Inuyasha... here and bruised.

Ayame... weak but here...

Kouga... sadly, here.

Miroku... here...

Sango... being held by Miroku and unconcious...

Kikyo... KIKYO? "KIKYO?" Inuyasha called as his eyes scanned. Where was she?

"Inuyasha come! Come!" her frail cold man stealing voice (author- little bit of bad feelings) called. Inuyasha raised over only to his love, his life, his breath, laying on the ground... face in the dirt with a the glow of Purity around her.

"Kagome? What was she doing here?" Inuyasha asked. She was not supposed to be here. After her chat of death he had forbidden her to come and to stay with Shippou. Had she defied him?

"KAGOME WAKE UP!" he shook her, over and over. "WAKE UP!"

Why wasn't she waking up?

Kikyo whispered, "I think she's dead. Thank God!"

"She can't be..." he whispered, tears filling his eyes.

"No," he said and then a memory flashed through his mind.

The princes Kagome was telling him about, who awoke by the kiss of a prince...

Well, she wasn't a princess and he wasn't a prince- but...

His soft lips crashed down to her cold ones.

Sequal to Goodbye... new story coming soon.