Author's Note- My first Inu-yasha fic!! I'm so happy! Just to let you know, this will probably be very short and just a fluff with no real villains. Let's get on with it. R&R

Disclaimer- Rumiko Takahashi owns Inuyasha. My name is Alicia, so I guess I don't own it, huh?

When Choice Is Required

Chapter: 1

By: Cobalt-eyedAngel

"They've all been retrieved." Kagome said looking at the ground.

"Yeah..." Inuyasha said as he gazed at Kagome. "You can go back to your own time peacefully."

Wrong thing to say.

"Right." Kagome's tears spilled out of her eyes and she turned her back to Inuyasha. "Bye Sango, Miroku, and Shippo." She hugged them each. Then turned back to Inuyasha, her tears freely falling from her face. "Here." She gave the completed Shikon Jewel to Inuyasha and hurriedly jumped down the well, never to return again.

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She held the object up so they moon shown brightly behind it. It sent pinkish-purplish light that spread over her face. "I shouldn't have taken you."

Kagome sighed and brought the shard down.

"Inuyasha is probably pissed at me. He can't become a full demon without you." She said talking to the Shikon jewel in her hand. "He probably wanted to be happy with Kikyo. Maybe their married...Do people get married in fetal Japan?" Kagome couldn't help the tears that once again fell from her face.

Kagome looked up at the tree that Inuyasha could always be found out in the past. "I'll try to forget you Inuyasha...but, I can't seem to remember what my life was like before I met you. I keep thinking, that maybe it would've been better if I had never met you at all. I keep wondering how my life would've been different. But, in the end, I'm glad I met you, I'm glad I had this journey with you. And I'm glad we helped all those people along the way."

"Kagome?" Kagome's mother called. Kagome looked up to see her mother's face etched with worry and concern.

"Oh, mom!" Kagome ran into her mother's inviting embrace and cried some more. "I miss them so much." Kagome's mother knew who Kagome meant when she said them.

Her mother, not quite sure what to say, knew that Kagome just needed someone to hold her right now. She slightly rocked Kagome till her tears were no more but a red stain on her cheeks.

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"Inuyasha, have you decided what you want your wish to be?" Sango asked as Miroku, Shippo, Kikyo, and herself were crowded around his precious Goshinboku. He was sitting in his usual spot, looking depressed.

Sango, Miroku, and Shippo knew exactly why, even if Inuyasha didn't. And Kikyo was starting to get restless. She wanted Inuyasha to hurry up and make his wish so she could go on to hell with him. Her body, without the power of the Shikon shards, was slowly rotting.

"I have all the damn time in the world; I'll make my decision when I feel like it!" Inuyasha shouted from his perch, glaring at them.

Kikyo was down there, but whenever he got within ten feet from her he could smell her decaying scent, and his sensitive nose was greatly bothered. But, what bothered him even more was that he was wishing for Kagome's wonderful scent of watermelon and mountain air. It was an awkward scent, that usually he wouldn't be able to describe less picture the scent. But, he seemed to be missing a lot of things about Kagome, and he couldn't explain why.

He wasn't sure of his wish to give the Shikon jewel. And, he felt that after he used it, it would seem all the more final. He felt that if he went ahead and used it, he would never be able to see Kagome ever again. And though he would never admit it, that thought scared him greatly.

Author's Note- Wow, I rock. LOL R&R!!!