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'Normal speaking'

'Thinking'

Kagome watched in slow motion as she saw Sesshomaru slice through Inuyasha with his Tokijin. Kagome was too late. I should have stopped being an idiot and come back to you Inuyasha! You were coming for me because I was too damn stubborn to accept your apology, and now you might die! I'm sorry Inuyasha! Kagome thought.

Kagome saw Inuyasha fall to the bloody grass floor next to the Bone Eaters Well. Kagome had just come back from her time. She had had an argument with Inuyasha and hadn't accepted his apology. She couldn't stay away from Inuyasha too long though, and had decided to come back to the Feudal Era after four days of being in her time.

Sesshomaru smiled at how he slaughtered his little brother and looked at Kagome. "You were too late wench. It is your fault that Inuyasha is dead," Sesshomaru said in his unemotional tone. Kagome shook her head, making all of the tears on her face flail around her.

"No! That's not true! Inuyasha is not dead!" Kagome screamed. She refused to believe that Inuyasha was dead. Face it Kagome. Inuyasha is no longer alive. Just go look at his face one more time and walk away, Kagome's conscious told her. Sesshomaru walked away, still with a smile on his face.

Kagome walked over to Inuyasha's motionless body. "Please, Inuyasha," Kagome pleaded. "I know you didn't want to die this way! Please wake up. Please at least say something to me." As Kagome's tears fell on Inuyasha's face, he worked up just enough energy to say his true feelings to her.

"Kagome?" Inuyasha strained. "Kagome, I have to tell you right now. I love you. I thought that I couldn't forget Kikyo, but it wasn't Kikyo I was thinking about all the time. It was you. I just didn't want to believe my true feelings. Soon, I couldn't deny them though. Kagome, the truth is that I love you. I always have since the first day that you shed tears for me. Whenever I was fighting Sesshomaru, you were crying because you were afraid that I had given up. Well, know this Kagome. As long as you are in my life, I will never give up."

"Oh, Inuyasha, I love you too. Why didn't you tell me that you have felt this way before?" Kagome asked. Inuyasha laughed as much as he could without hurting himself too much. "I was planning to tell you as soon as you came back. Since it seemed that I was going to have to get you myself after you wouldn't accept my apology, I was going to bring you back here and tell you then."

Kagome's heart soared. Inuyasha loved her. Kagome had fallen in love with him a long time ago, and she had told him she loved him. She just thought that Inuyasha wouldn't ever feel the same way. Kagome thought that Inuyasha just couldn't ever devote his love to anyone other than Kikyo.

Kagome threw her arms around Inuyasha's neck. Inuyasha put his arms around Kagome. How I have longed to feel this, Inuyasha thought. Kagome looked into Inuyasha's deep golden eyes. The words 'I will never love anyone as much as I love you as long as I live' passed between the two of them. Kagome leaned down and kissed Inuyasha as hard as she could. Inuyasha kissed back.

Whenever Inuyasha started wincing from the pain of losing too much blood, Kagome stopped leaning on him. He wiped Kagome's tears away and said, "Don't worry about me, Kagome. I'm going to live for a few more minutes. I'm just glad that I can live them with you by my side."

For the last few moments of Inuyasha's life, Kagome sat with Inuyasha's head in her lap. "The last time we sat like this, was whenever those spider heads attacked us. I had said that you smelled nice," Inuyasha reminisced. Kagome smiled. She remembered that day and how she felt whenever Inuyasha had said that certain sentence. "Do I still smell nice?" Kagome asked. Inuyasha gave a short laugh.

"You smell nicer than you ever have." Kagome blushed. As she looked at her outfit, she realized that she was covered in Inuyasha's blood. She believed that Inuyasha was just dodging around the smell of his own blood while he smelled her.

As Inuyasha's breathing got shorter and lighter, Kagome feared of losing her Inuyasha. She already knew that Inuyasha was going to die, but she had just learned that Inuyasha returned her feelings of love for him. A few minutes had seemed like a few seconds. Kagome squeezed Inuyasha's hand harder as his eyes started to close.

"Kagome, please kiss me one more time. I want to die with the feeling of your lips on mine," Inuyasha requested. Kagome leaned down and kissed Inuyasha, just like he said.

"Thank you," Inuyasha whispered. With his last breath he said softly, "I love you Kagome." Inuyasha's head lolled to the left. His hand went limp in Kagome's grasp. Kagome's heart stopped soaring and started breaking. "Inuyasha? Inuyasha? Inuyasha?!" she desperately asked. A fresh flood of tears spilled out of her eyes.

"No!!! No, please God, no!!!" Kagome screamed. She fell on top of Inuyasha's body and begged to God to bring him back. After she realized that Inuyasha really was not coming back, she shouted in agony.

She yelled at the top of her lungs, one more time, "No!"

Kagome shot out of her bed. She was sweating hard and breathing fast. She glanced at her alarm clock, which read noon, and sluggishly got out of her bed. She gazed in her bathroom looking glass (A/N: don't you think that sounds much classier than 'mirror'?) and cursed the dark circles under her eyes. She hardly got sleep anymore. Whenever she did get any sleep, she had the same nightmare every night.

It had been four years since Inuyasha was killed. After burying her love one's body, she defeated Naraku with the help of Sango, Miroku, and Shippo and fixed the Sacred Jewel. She had dug out some of the dirt on Inuyasha's grave and placed the Sacred Jewel in the hole. "Now you can make a wish, Inuyasha," Kagome had whispered. She thought of Inuyasha's dream to become a full fledged demon. She decided that since Inuyasha had confessed his love to her that he would wish for something else, perhaps for Kagome to become half demon like him or maybe for a life time supply of ramen.

Kagome brushed her hair and put on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. There was no reason to dress in her uniform because she had graduated from high school the year before. She dragged her feet on the ground as she walked down the stairs. She sat down at the dinner table and picked at her food. Kagome's mom urged her daughter to eat. "I'm not hungry," Kagome protested. Mrs. Higurashi sighed. Kagome never ate more than she needed to maintain survival. Plus, the only thing than ran through Kagome's mind was the day that Inuyasha had died. Seeing her loved one's bloody body dead in her mind made her sick to her stomach. She couldn't eat thinking about that.

"Of course, if you are not feeling well, I won't make you eat," Mrs. Higurashi responded. Kagome silently thanked her mother. I'm glad I have one of those understanding moms. I'm going to have to tell her that I really am happy that she's my mom later.

Kagome stood up from chair and walked out the front door. "I'm going to visit Inuyasha's grave," she called from the door. Mrs. Higurashi said to herself after her daughter left, "Of course you are. That's what you do every day. You come downstairs after sleeping for what seems like ten hours but is probably only four, sit down for breakfast but only take a couple of bites, and then you walk off to talk to Inuyasha's grave marker all day. I hope you won't be like this forever, Kagome."

Kagome jumped into the well and appeared on the other side. She listened to the birds sing. As she climbed out of the well, she noticed that all of the animals were with mates. It seemed like all of the mated animals were crowding around Kagome, as if they were showing off that their loved ones were alive and Kagome's wasn't.

Kagome's eyes welled up with tears. "I don't know how much more I can take of this," Kagome said to herself. Kagome sulked as she walked. It didn't take her long to reach Inuyasha's grave. She, Miroku, and Sango had buried Inuyasha under the Sacred Tree. Kagome looked up at the spot that marked where Kikyo had killed Inuyasha. After staring at the spot for a few minutes, Kagome sat down a foot or two away from Inuyasha's gravestone.

"Hello Inuyasha. What's up?" Kagome asked. Then Kagome waited. For the past four years, if Kagome concentrated hard enough on her love for Inuyasha, she could connect with him from the netherworld.

"Hello Kagome. All I have been doing is wishing that you were with me. I finally got to meet my dad and I got to see my mom again," Inuyasha's voice said in Kagome's mind. Kagome smiled with relief. The sad thing was that Kagome thought that she could hear Inuyasha's voice. The truth was that Kagome was just imagining Inuyasha talking to her. Kagome had been pining for Inuyasha with such a fierce intensity that she was going crazy out of her right mind. Whenever she told people that she talked to her dead boyfriend for hours at a time, everyone felt terribly sorry for her.

"That's great Inuyasha. I wish you were still with me. I miss you so much. If you came back, I don't think you would recognize me," Kagome admitted.

"What do you mean?" Inuyasha asked in Kagome's head.

"I have dark circles under my eyes from not getting much sleep. Ever since the day that you died, my mind replays your death over and over in my head at night. I'm pretty skinny. I just don't like to eat that much."

"Kagome, you know I wish that you wouldn't be depressed over me. I want you to live your life while you still can. You defeated that bastard Naraku and you graduated from a good high school. You planned Miroku and Sango's wedding and helped Shippo defend for himself," Inuyasha reminded Kagome.

"You're right. I can't help the whole depression part though. I want to be with you so badly. Inuyasha, I have decided that I'm going to commit suicide," Kagome announced to Inuyasha's gravestone. She saw Inuyasha getting angry in her mind.

"No Kagome! I won't let you do that! You can't just throw your life away just because you miss me!" Inuyasha shouted. Kagome shook her head to rid his voice of her imagination. "Inuyasha, I can't stand it anymore! I want to be with you and I'll do whatever it takes to see you again!"

Silence.

"Inuyasha? Are you still there?" Kagome asked. Whenever Inuyasha's voice didn't reply, she stood up and looked around. How can I kill myself without it hurting too much? she wondered. She saw a cliff nearby. She walked to the end of it. The drop was at least two hundred feet and the bottom was plain grass. Enough to kill, but not to hurt.

Kagome backed up fifteen feet. "I'm coming Inuyasha!" Kagome shouted as she ran. She sprinted to the end of the cliff and flung herself off of it. She spread her arms wide and felt like she was flying. Kagome hit the grassy bottom and successfully killed herself.

Her spirit walked back to the Sacred Tree. Kagome hoped that Inuyasha would be there waiting to take her to the netherworld. Once she appeared at Inuyasha's grave, she looked up. Inuyasha's spirit stood in front of her with a smile plastered on his face. Kagome was overjoyed. Her soul ran to her long awaited loved one's soul.

"I have missed you so very much, Inuyasha," Kagome whispered. "I did too, Kagome," Inuyasha whispered back. "I have a few people back in the netherworld I want you to meet. They have been waiting a long time to meet my mate."

Kagome grinned wide at the word 'mate'. She stood on her tip toes and kissed Inuyasha. Both pairs of their lips had wanted to be reunited with the others.

After Inuyasha and Kagome broke apart, they walked away into the now setting sun. The two were finally together once again.