I am completely rewriting my old Zelda/Inuyasha story with the same name. I have been meaning to do this for years, but never had the time, I still don't, but it needs to be done- a lot of my stories need to be done, really, but redoing a story won't take much effort, and I can work on it between my job, and writing my book. Something to fiddle with, that won't drain me when I'm done, and I have something to look off of.

Long ago, whenever I talk to someone about the fact I wanted to redo this story, they all would say the same thing: "No! Don't redo it! It's a great story!" I didn't mean I wanted to get rid of it and make a new one, it will still be the same story but so many people loved it, they didn't want it changed.

When I finished the old story years ago, you must admit that it was badly written, grammar wise, there's a few plot holes not explained, and I have grown a lot as a writer since then. I just wanted to tweak and fix those problems, but I would have to start from scratch to do it.

Since people have said they did not want me to fix it, I decided to redo the story, but post it as a new story, so that my old one will still be available to read for everyone. Hopefully with this choice, everyone wins.

I don't own Zelda, the game, or Inuyasha.

Unbeta-ed

Story

The sky was clear and cloudless, a perfect, nice day. Days such as this almost made her forget her past and tough experiences, and allowed her a few moments peace…

Kagome sighed as she stood below the God Tree, staring into its leafy branches with a blank expression on her face. Memories flooded her as she looked at the small notch that was forever carved into the trunk, and for an instant a figure appeared, trapped by an arrow, where he would rest for 50 years.

Her gaze lowered, and her eyes focused on another cut into the tree, chest height, and larger in size. She hummed to herself, and reached up, touching the gap, lightly trailing her fingers along the smoothly cut edges. As she stood there, the past took up most of her thoughts, unaware that the sword resting on her hip, glowed softly.

A soft thump was heard behind her, yet she was not alarmed by it, and just continued to look at the tree.

"I knew you would be here." A gruff voice spoke as he walked up to her.

"I wasn't hiding." She lowered her hand, and glanced at him over her shoulder. Her comment made the dog demon give a small snort in response, and the corners of her lips curved upwards slightly in satisfaction. "I'm surprised you even came looking for me, and are not with the others in the village." She turned to fully face him, the staff in her other hand giving a small jingle from the movement.

"You mean you are surprised I left Kikyo." He knew what she was getting at, and he turned his head away, stuffing his hands inside of his sleeves.

"Is there something you want, Inuyasha?" Her tone seemed more heated then she intended, but her words were effective, for he turned his head back towards her, his ears twitching from the sound of her calling him by name.

"Do I have to want something from you every time I see you?"

"Why else?"

"Maybe I want to check and see if you are okay-" She snorted through her nose and he immediately got upset and reacted, huffing. "Hell-!" He threw his hands in the air in defeat. "Might surprise you to know I came to talk with you."

"Really?" She turned her head slightly, and was genuinely surprised.

"Yeah..." He looked to the ground, as if embarrassed.

"About the shards?"

"No."

"Naraku?"

"No."

"Shippo and the others?"

"No." He shook his head.

"About the village?" She narrowed her eyes at him in distrust.

"No."

"You want to talk about Kikyo." She stated as if it were fact.

"N-…" He paused for a moment, then he shook his head. "I want to talk about you, alright!" He looked away from her, and a small amount of color appeared across his nose. "Damn…" She had a confused look on her face, as if he just grew another head. "Are you feeling alright?"

"Fine…?" She shifted in her spot, the whole scene making her feel uncomfortable and strange. What is going on? He is up to something.

"How is your family?" He glanced back at her and she raised an eyebrow.

"Fine." The grip on her staff tightened.

"Do you need to check on them soon—"

"What are you getting at, Inuyasha?" She narrowed her eyes at him again, a frown on her face.

"Damnit Kagome, I'm just trying to be nice!"

"I don't like you nice—You are freaking me out!"

"What? I can't be nice to you—"

"No! You are never nice!" This time it was his turn to look at her strangely and she huffed. She looked away from him, and at the ground. Her anger subsided and she sighed. "Sorry." She found herself apologizing.

She saw movement out of the corner of her eye, before she felt a cold touch against her cheek—She pulled away from him, her anger reappearing as she glared at him questionably. He just stood there for a moment, frozen, with his hand outstretched, touching the air, with a saddened look in his amber orbs. His ears lowered and he sighed. "You won't forgive me, will you?"

"How could I?" She turned her back on him, and started walking towards her bag, that was resting on the ground, at the bottom of the tree trunk. Her sword was hitting against her left hip in rhythm with her movement, while her quiver of arrows was hitting against her right. "You were so quick to forget, and replace me—"

"I thought you were dead!" He shouted, upset by her comment. "We all did!" His words made her pause. "What else was I supposed to do?"

"I don't know!" She shouted back, her hand balled into a fist by her side, while the other gripped her staff until her knuckles turned white. "Search harder! Something!"

"We searched everywhere…" His tone lowered, and was laced with regret and sadness. "But we never gave up, I swear." He walked up to her, and placed his hand on her shoulder, this time she did not push him away. She sighed, her anger dispersing. "We needed Kikyo's help to find the shards, so we could locate and kill him." He removed his clawed hand, and moved forward. He reached her pack, and bent down, picking it up. The bottle of shards gave off a soft jingling from inside one of the small pouches in the bag, as he slung it over his shoulder. "Come on, before Shippo throws another fit about you being gone for so long." He started walking, not even bothering to ask her if she was ready to go back or not. She rolled her eyes at him. But she was used to it.

"Yeah, you take the light load…" She huffed when she reached out to the tree, where her boomerang bone was leaning against, and hefted the heavy weapon, placing it onto her back. "Have me carry the heavy stuff." The staff in her hand jingled as she walked several steps behind him, and they continued their way to the village. Inuyasha gave an amused snort from ahead of her.

"You need the exercise, you are getting fat anyway." He joked with a fanged grin.

"What did you just say?" She reached out and gripped the heavy weapon that was placed on her back with a vein appearing on the side of her forehead in rage.

"Nothing…"

"That's what I thought." She hummed, lowing her hand from her weapon.

They both walked in silence, back to the village. The stroll was calming, as the noises from the animals around them in the forest added to the effect and soothed her. She wasn't sure exactly why, but being in the forest, hearing the sounds of the nature around her and walking among the tree was a peaceful experience for her-

"Hey, Kagome?" Well, she was enjoying it while it lasted, anyway…

"Yes?" She moved her gaze from the trees, to the familiar white fuzzy triangles that were perched on top of his head.

"I've been at the village for a few weeks now." She knew where this was headed. "We should move on, and start searching for Naraku again." Kagome sighed and looked down at her brown shoes, as a small distraction.

"You didn't want to talk to me." She stated matter of fact. "You just wanted to pretend to be nice to me, so you could sneak in the fact that it was time to leave." Her words caused him to fumble slightly and she knew she hit the nail on the head. "I admit that your strategy was different than normal—usually you just order us around and tell us to leave or when to stay—" She paused when an idea came to her mind. "Kikyo told you to treat me more nicely, then you might get what you wanted—isn't that right?" That's why he left her.

She knew that he wouldn't leave Kikyo's side without a good reason, and wasn't just there to see her…

Usually she would be angry, but it was mostly her own fault, she should have known and stuck with her gut feeling that he wasn't just being nice to her- She sighed as a small stab of pain hit her chest and she reached up, placing her hand over her heart. She wasn't as angry, but that doesn't mean it didn't hurt…

"Kagome, we have to find him." Inuyasha stopped walking, yet didn't turn around to face her. His tone became serious as he looked down at the ground.

"What's the point?" She stopped too, staring holes into his back, as she shifted the staff in her hand. "Tell me Inuyasha, do you have a lead on where Naraku is at?"

"…No." He sighed in defeat.

"Then how are we even supposed to know where to begin looking—"

"We have to go and find someone who saw him—Something!" The old dog seemed rather beaten, as his hand balled into a tight fist by his side, before he finally punched the tree that was unlucky enough to be the one standing right beside the enraged half-demon. "We need to search everywhere for rumors! Anything! He still has half of the shards-!"

"And neither Kikyo or I can sense anything from them. He hid himself after the last battle, and that was over a year ago, Inuyasha." Anger started to boil under her own skin at the thought of the evil demon still walking in the world and breathing. For an entire year he has been still breathing, escaping through their grasp some way. But she had to face facts, they both did— "No matter how bad you or I want him dead—We can't find him." When she spoke the words, she saw the demon before her visible flinch, and he turned his back to her once more. She knew it, the gang, and even Inuyasha knew it. We were all thinking it, were never truly spoken our thoughts out loud.

We all felt, if we spoke them out loud, in a sense, it would be true, and we would have lost the battle we have been fighting for a whole year…

"So what?" Inuyasha's voice was barely above a whisper. "So what if we haven't heard anything about Naraku in a year, he is still out there." Inuyasha sighed. "He is only hiding in fear because you almost killed him a year ago during the last battle." Hearing his rare show of praise, made her chest swell up with pride and a she smiled.

"Yes…" Kagome stood straight and nodded in agreement. "We will kill him next time." She instinctively reached out and her hand wrapped around the hilt of her blade as she spoke those words. Her sword began to give off a soft glow of power once more, at her touch- Her blade will deal the final blow, and this time he won't run away. "Naraku is just a coward." Her grip on the hilt tightened, and her jaw became clamped, her teeth grinding slightly. "If only…" Her words faded. The image of Naraku's fearful gaze entered her mind, as her blade swung down towards his body. If only her attack killed him, then he would finally be dead, and she could get her revenge…

The sword glowed brighter, as if it was reacting to her desires—She paused and looked down at her trusted sword, and raised an eyebrow. Strange, it's never done that before- What-…? She lifted her hand, and her eyes widened when her fingers were held before her, yet she could see right through them, spotting Inuyasha still standing in front of her. Her gaze followed her hand, down her arm, before finally at her entire body and her heart seemed to freeze in fear, as her form began to fade into nothing.

What in the—

"Don't worry Kagome." Inuyasha snorted, as if a thought came to his mind. "Whenever he gathers up the courage to crawl out of whatever hole he hid himself in, we will find him—then we will kill him." The dog demon turned around, and he paused, glancing around with a confused look on his face. "Kagome?" His nose gave off a small twitch, picking up her light scent. "Kagome?" He removed the pack that was on his shoulder, holding it in his hand instead as he held it loosely by his side. "Kagome!" He called out, cupping his hand against his mouth. His ears began to twitch frantically trying to pick up any sound of a reply.

Where did she go…?

Note: I hope you guys like the small change I added on just the first chapter. I added Inuyasha so you would know what happen to him and the others. I had more detail and things.

Oh, and for all of those who were worried and wondering about my mother: Thank you. She is doing fine now, shes recovering, and I'm helping her best I can, between my job and trying to write my book.

Hope you guys like this post, any post really. I don't go much time on my hands to write Fanfiction, but I will try to update some of my unfinished stories that are on my accout best I can, when I have time.