Ohayo minna!!

Uhh.. I'm extremely extremely sorry for not updating any of my other stories! I'm getting to it! (Really!)

But the idea of this story just seemed so good I just couldn't pass it up!!

Hope you guys can enjoy this one!

Inuyasha paced back and forth. His face set in a frown.

He would do it today.

Yes.

Today would be the day.

But... when? When today? What would happen if he did it today? Would she be freaked out?

He sighed, frustrated at his helplessness. They had been through so much already. She wouldn't just leave him now. The Shikon Jewel had been completed a week ago.

Inuyasha paused in his pacing, a thoughtful expression on his face.

How long? How long has it been since Kagome first came and stole his heart? Four years... they'd been together for four years. He was confident that she loved him back. And with Kikyo finally resting peacefully (or maybe not so peacefully now...) in hell, there was nothing that could stop him.

She'd say yes, of course.

He nodded to himself, still absorbed in his own thoughts. But.. Maybe not in the day... not that he thought she would refuse, of course, but perhaps it'd be nicer.. To wait until tonight.

He nodded to himself again. Yes. Tonight sounded right.

Tonight would be the night...

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"Master Jaken! Give my flowers back now!" A breathless Rin shouted, chasing the green toad demon. "Master Jaken!"

"You weak and foolish human girl! That's what you get for trying to put them on me! I don't know why Lord Sesshomaru even bothers with you when–"

Jaken was a cut off when Sesshomaru's foot connected with his head. A loud crack was heard.

The green toad slumped over on the grass, unable to move anymore, his eyes rolling over.

"Master Jaken! Sesshomaru-sama, will he okay?" Sesshomaru did not reply.

"Get up Jaken." The toad scrambled up immediately, a pulsing purple-green bruise on his head.

"Yes Master Sesshomaru?" He replied, a humble expression on his face.

"Stay and guard Rin, Jaken. I'm going." Sesshomaru walked off, without a backward glance at his servant and ward.

"Master Sesshomaru! Where are you going? When will you be back?" Rin called out, her voice covered in disappointment. She had hoped that she would be spending more time with her Master.

Sesshomaru did not answer, but kept walking.

Where was he going, exactly?

He did not know. But he felt something calling out to him.

So he walked gracefully across the forest, towards the Goshinboku tree.

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Kagome paced back and forth in front of the sacred tree. She bit her lip nervously. What did Inuyasha mean when he told her to wait for him in front of the tree?

She could hear the pounding of her heart in her ears. Perhaps he's wanted to confess... Kagome blushed at the thought.

No. He still loved Kikyo, she thought depressingly. She had remembered his cry of rage when hearing that Kikyo had been sent back to hell when trying to kill Naraku. He fought Naraku for Kikyo. He saw Kagome as Kikyo.

Kagome cursed herself again for her connection to the priestess. Even when she's dead she still causing trouble in their relationship.

Kagome heard a twig snap somewhere not too far from her position. Her body froze.

"Who's there?" She asked, cursing herself for forgetting to bring her bow. "Who's there?" She repeated.

A tinkling laugh was heard. She could not pinpoint the direction the sound was coming from. It seemed to be coming from everywhere.

"Hehe. It's going to be fun fun night indeed! Indeed!" It erupted in tinkling laughter again.

"Nani? Who are you? Where are you?"

"I'm Matsuro. I can't tell you where I am, because presently, I'm everywhere and no where." It laughed again.

"What are you going to do?" Kagome asked, the fear was evident in her voice.

'Matsuro' sighed. "This is what I don't like about my job. Sorry Kagome, but I'm going to have to take the thing most precious to you."

Kagome reached for the completed Shikon Jewel around her neck instinctively. Matsuro laughed again.

"Oh no, no, no! It's nothing material! You've fought so so hard to keep that jewel! I absolutely positively can not take it away! It will be a key to getting back the thing, well, not quite a thing, you will lose!" It stopped there, giving Kagome time to ask her questions.

"What.. Are you another one of Naraku's minions? What are you going to take from me?" She yelled, whether it was because of fear, or the fact that Matsuro might not hear, she did not know.

"Oh no! Naraku is dead, dead, dead! Like he deserves! Hehe! I'm going to take away a part of your soul!" Kagome felt panic arise in her. Was this Kikyo?

"Kikyo? Is that you? Cause this definitely isn't funny."

"Oh no! I'm not being funny here! Oh no, no, no! And Kikyo's not here either. It's Matsuro." It laughed again. "I'm going to take something very very important to you, and you'll have to figure out how to get it back! It'll be quite a journey for you, I promise, but in the end... well.. You never know!"

Kagome was feeling increasingly scared.

"Just let me go, okay? Or I'll.." But what Kagome was going to do, we never knew, for at that moment, a blinding light surrounded her, and Kagome felt as though her soul was being teared out of her body.

She let out one last loud cry, and her body fell to the ground, unmoving.

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Inuyasha raced towards the Goshinboku tree, his heart pounding madly in his chest.

He's going to do it. He's going to confess his love for her. It would finally happen between them. He smiled at the thought, his puppy ears twitching slightly.

Something was off.

He frowned. He could smell Kagome, her scent was near, but yet he felt as though she was far far away.

Finally, jumping over the last tree in his path, he landed on the ground. But what he saw almost made him fall over.

Kagome, his Kagome, was floating in mid-air, her eyes closed and a serene expression on her face. Something was glowing.

The next thing he saw made him scream. Sesshomaru was there! 'He's going to kill her!'

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Sesshomaru walked on, finally approaching the Goshinboku tree. The sense of calling grew stronger. He narrowed his eyes. Why had he been brought to this place? What had called him here?

He heard a yell. It sounded like Inuyasha's woman. The miko girl.

He jumped forward, leaping from tree to tree, finally landing in the clearing with the strange well. What he saw made his eyes widen in shock.

He saw the girl, Inuyasha's woman. She was floating in mid-air, a serene expression upon her pretty face. She did not move. She did not seem to know he was there. There was not a sound around them. It was as though the whole world had disappeared. There was only him and her. The miko and the taiyoukai.

Suddenly, she convulsed in her position in the air, her face contorting in pain. There was a bright white flash of light, and everything stopped. The girl stopped moving. There was a bright, strangely calming yellow glow coming from her chest.

Something was coming out of her body.

Something she did not want to give up, Sesshomaru noted, remembering the earlier struggle the girl had put up.

Finally, a yellow sphere emerged from the girl's body, and she fell to the floor in a limp, unmoving pile. Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes, glaring at the foreign object. What could it be?

However, all thoughts were frozen when suddenly, it started moving towards him. He wanted to run. To go away. Everything he had learned warned him of situations like this. He should move. He should go. He shouldn't have seen what happened to her.

He couldn't move. He tried to move, a few weak attempts, but the curiosity attaching him there was too strong. He watched in horror and fascination as the globe finally entered his chest. He did not feel anything, no pain, no soreness. But it felt as though it, whatever it was, belonged there. It was like it was a part of him that was missing.

His eyebrows narrowed together, forming a thin line. The corners of his mouth bent downwards. He did not like this. Something foreign had entered his body, despite years of knowledge and warnings that he should never never be around the situations. He did not understand confusion.

Confusion made him weak. And Sesshomaru was definitely not weak.

Suddenly, he jumped from his spot to a nearby tree and proceeded home. He cursed himself for his stupidity.

How had he not sensed Inuyasha's presence? Now that the hanyou had seen him, he would undoubtedly accuse Sesshomaru of what happened to the idiot hanyou's woman.

He sighed. Cursing himself repeatedly for his stupidity.

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Inuyasha thought desperately, he needed to save her! But his body wouldn't cooperate. He watched helplessly as Sesshomaru advanced slowly, getting closer to Kagome. His Kagome.

Inuyasha's eyes widened in horror as the yellow globe exited Kagome. He watched her suffer, and yet he was helpless. Helpless to her pain. Helpless to everything that was going on. He could not move. The yellow sphere moved slowly, as though teasing him, towards his brother. He let out a roar of anger when it entered his brother. Something that belonged in his Kagome was in his brother's body!

However, as soon as the sphere had disappeared, morphed with Sesshomaru's body, Inuyasha regained control over his body. He raced as fast as he could towards his Kagome, his heart beating furiously in his heart.

'Please don't let her be dead. I can't bear to be alone again... please..'

He quickly dropped to her side, pressing his head against her heart. He heard a faint, but non-the-less steady beat in her heart. He sighed in relief, breathing in her scent. He looked up, but Sesshomaru was already gone. He frowned. He couldn't leave Kagome just to look for the bastard... He sighed.

He'll find Sesshomaru tomorrow, and slice him up, and take out what belongs to Kagome.

He nodded to himself. Sounded like a good plan to him.

Arigato for reading!! I'll try to update asap guys!

Ja ne!