All right! I have begun re-posting my chapters! The first few I am reposting because they were so short. Anyone who has read this story before will notice that this is actually the first two chapters combined.

Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to Inuyasha, though I do own almost the whole English series of manga!

Prologue: The End of the Battle and What Happened After

Kagome looked out over the battlefield. Nothing moved. She looked at the two swords she was holding and the bow and empty quiver that lay on the ground beside her. She was the only one left; they were all gone. They had all died to give her a chance to finish off Naraku. She looked over at the spot where the evil hanyou had died all that was left was a crater, and something that sparkled.

Kagome walked over to the crater and bent down. She scooped up a jewel the colour of a pearl, but about ten times the size of one. Tears flooded Kagome's eyes once again, and dripped onto the jewel that had caused all of her sorrow.

"Why did you ever come to me? I hate you Shikon no Tama! You're the reason all of my friends died! You're the reason that my one true love lies in a pool of his own blood! And yet, I know it wasn't entirely your fault, I could have killed Naraku sooner, I was just too afraid." Kagome's screams quieted down with this last statement. She felt numb inside, as she looked at the bodies of her friends lying all around her.

And something inside her broke as she looked at that familiar silver white hair, splayed all over the ground, turning pink from the blood it was soaked in. Those golden eyes, never to look deep into her own ever again, never to hold the look of love that she had never hoped to find there. Her one and only love had been stolen away from her for all time.

"I need to go home. I have no place here anymore. She looked at her friends, lying broken on the ground, she knew that they were satisfied in their deaths, but she wanted so badly for them to have been satisfied in life instead. Even Shippo was there, his body battered and broken. She cried for her lost kit, she had loved him as her own son, and now he was gone.

Everyone had helped in the final battle; Koga had come and actually fought alongside Inuyasha, as had his brother Sesshomaru. It had truly been a sight to see. But they were all gone now.

Kagome heard soft sobs coming from the woods and went towards the sound. She found a girl of about nine years old sitting behind a tree crying and whispering Sesshomaru's name every once in a while.

Kagome sat down beside the girl. "You're Rin, aren't you?" The girl looked at Kagome and nodded. "I'll take you to the village before I leave, it's the least I can do."

Kagome took one last look at her friends, said a small prayer, and walked away, the girl's hand clutched in her own.

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Kagome stared out the doorway of Kaede's hut. The old miko had not come to the last battle, as she was needed desperately in the village at that time. Kagome was grateful that at least one of her friends had survived. Kaede had agreed to take Rin in and raise her in the village, she would never be ridiculed for being brought up for three years by a youkai. All who had fought Naraku were considered heroes, at least in this village, whether human, youkai, or hanyou.

It had been a week since the final battle against Naraku, and Kagome still couldn't face the thought of going home. She wasn't ready to start living again, she wasn't sure if she ever would be. But at the same time, she couldn't stand staying here, in the past, where everything reminded her of him.

She remembered how he had fought to keep her safe in the last battle, how he had jumped in front of her and stopped the blow that was meant to kill her while she prepared her miko energies to destroy Naraku. All she had seen at that moment was long white hair and his sword slicing through the blast. He turned to flash her a smile and his golden eyes winked at her. She had never seen him that way. Then came another attack, and another, and he defended her until she was ready to unleash her blast of energy. Kagome had watched as all of her friends were killed in her defence, and now he was the only one left standing. She thought that he might live, and then she would at least have her love, if not her friends, but cruel fate wrenched even that possibility from her as he moved from in front of her to allow her attack to go toward Naraku. The evil hanyou made a double attack, an energy blast toward Kagome, enabled by the completed Shikon no Tama, and a physical one toward her love. She screamed as she let go of her own energy blast and saw the only one she had left run in to destroy the attack aimed at her, ignoring the one coming at him. He was impaled on ten of Naraku's tentacles and he died with her name and a smile on his lips.

Kagome looked down at the completed Shikon no Tama and tears once again filled her eyes. Why didn't I let off that attack sooner? Why didn't I ever tell him that I loved him? Why? Why? Why?

Kaede came and sat down beside Kagome. "Child, I think that ye should go home. There is nothing more for ye here. Go, and take the Shikon with ye into the future, where it will not hurt anyone else."

Kagome looked at Kaede. She was right. What else could she do here, the search for the shards of the jewel was over, and there were none of her friends left to keep her here. She nodded to Kaede, got up, and walked out of the hut.

Kagome walked through Inuyasha's forest until she came to the Bone Eater's Well. She looked deep into it's depths, then took one final look around the Sengoku Jidai, then jumped into the well, returning to the future, and her home.

As she fell through the well, flying through time, Kagome held tight to the Jewel of Four Souls and deep in her heart she made a wish.

I wish………

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You will notice, I'm sure, that this chapter still ends in a cliffie! Sorry, I couldn't resist! Just click on the little button in the bottom right to check out the next chapter!