Summery: Inuyasha just stared at her as the seething Kagome said with so much anger, it was barely more then a whisper, "Inuyasha. I wish I'd never even met you. I never want to see you again" Kagome never knew that part of this heartless wish would come true. Rated T, for violence and language. Pairings, Inu/Kag, San/Mir

A/n- Ok! My first fic! Ok, semi-first. Admittedly, it's not the best. But hey, I try.

Language- Just so you know, I don't like to swear in real life. Only crap and freakin' when it's comically accurate, witch aren't really swears. DOG-BOY'S NOT OOC, Inu only swears cuz he's angry. He swears a lot anyway, but I got a complaint. Soooo…Ok, I hope this one is good enough.

Forever in Darkness

Ch. 1 Words that should have never been spoken.

It would have been a night like any other, stars glistening in the midnight sky, but all that changed when the soul collectors came into view over the tops of the trees, followed by the sent of beryl dirt and clay. The sent of the dead priestess Kikyo. Inuyasha didn't even think twice before dashing off into the forest to follow the sent of his departed love.

Kagome watched silently as he ran off from the safety of her sleeping bag. For all he knew she was fast asleep. Kagome knew why he had left without even seeing the spirit slaves to Kikyo. She had seen the look he had in his eyes. A look from him that she envied to receive. Kagome felt empty and hurt as she sat up to watch the last of him disappear from site into the thick forest.

Why? Why wasn't she ever good enough? What fault did she have that this dead clay pot didn't have? Kagome sighed, unclenching the hands she didn't know she had clasped in fists. Kagome laid back down knowing she would never be able to sleep. She laid their brooding and morning in self-pity. But her sadness turned to anger. Anger directed toward a certain hanyu. Kagome got up and restocked the fire. She checked the rest of the group to make sure all of them were really asleep, and what seemed like for the first time, they were. Kagome sat down, hugging her knees against her chest and looked into the flames as if mesmerized by the dancing blaze.

Inuyasha returned. He walked back with much less vigor then he had run to see Kikyo. He was so lost in his own thoughts that he didn't notice Kagome until he was well into the glade they were camping in. At sight of her he froze only a few yards away from her.

"So?" Kagome started without even looking up from the blazing fire "Did you have fun on your little visit?"

Inuyasha stood there with his mouth open for a moment before he diverted his gaze from her and said, "What are you talking about? Visit with who?"

Kagome chuckled. A heartless laugh thick with sarcasm. "Do you really think I'm that stupid Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha didn't reply but returned his gaze to her. Kagome continued, scratching at the dirt as if drawing something. "You don't know how much it hurts me when you lie…deny…cheat."

Inuyasha was angry now. "So you're calling me a liar and a cheat?"

"Do your ears hurt?" (In Japan it is a conmen fraise to say, "My ears hurt" when someone sates a fault of yourself you can't deny. Kagome asking if his ears hurt is like saying that it's a fault of himself he can't deny)

"Why you!" Inuyasha was seething now. "Why the Hell should I give a shit what you say, bitch?!" He yelled taking a step forward. By now the whole little camp should have been awake, and they probably were, but they didn't show it.

Kagome stood and walked up to him, not even trying to hold back the tears of frustration and hurt streaming down her face. "Is that all I am to you? A bitch? A tool so that you can find those damn jewel shards?!" she spat the words at him as if they were venom.

Inuyasha knew he had gone to far to turn back now. "Why should you be anything more! Besides that your nothing more then a damn hindrance!" He spat back.

Kagome closed her eyes and silence lengthened for a few seconds between them before Kagome shot open her eyes. Eyes filled with spiraling emotions of pain, betrayal, indifference, but most of all, anger. What she did next was so sudden, even the "sleeping" Songo and Shippo gasped, all eyes now wide.

Kagome slapped him. A hard slap. One that would sting inside and out.

Inuyasha just stared at her as the seething girl said with so much anger, it was barely more then a whisper, "Inuyasha. I wish I'd never even met you. I never want to see you again" Kagome walked away. A walk that soon became a run as she escaped into the dark forest. The moon was full and reflected off the tears streaming down her face as she ran deeper into the forest. Deeper and deeper, approaching ever closer to a fated doom.

A/N- And I thought that I'd stop right there, but then I decided to add this.

Kagome had run until she could run no more, falling into a sobbing heap on the ground. After all this, all this time, she thought, she'd … be more then that. She had hoped, hoped with all her might that she would be more then that, even more then a friend.

"I…hoped…" she wailed out loud. "I hoped…"

"People havvve hope…" a dark voice from behind her began, "…because they can't see death standing behiiiind them."

-Cue creepy music- I really don't want to wreck the mood, and I'm gunna post some more chapters after this. See, I write many, and I mean MANY fanfics, I'm just really scared about posting them. This is an old one I've decided to put up. Don't hate me. T-T'