Yet another of the oneshots that I wrote ages ago in my notebook and have finally got around to typing.
Kagome watched the rain sliding down the windowpane. It matched the tears cascading down her cheeks. Why of all times had he chosen to wait until now to tell her that he loved her? And yet she knew the answer. Only after Kikyo was completely gone could Inuyasha move on. Only then could he allow himself to look for someone else. Only then could he tell her that he loved her, because he had no one else. Only then could he shatter her heart into a million pieces.
Immediately as she thought this, she remembered something else that had been shattered, the Shikon no Tama. She was the one who had begun all this. She was the one who had forced her life upon Inuyasha's. Then she remembered all the times he had protected her, saved her, the time when he had given her his Kimono when she had nothing to wear, the time when he had first held her in his arms. She also remembered how she had "sat him" relentlessly, how she had never stopped Kouga's advances, even though she knew how Jealous it had made Inuyasha feel. Jealous? Surely someone is only jealous when they love what they haven't got.
As Kagome thought this her tears stopped, and so miraculously did the rain outside. Rushing to the window she was just in time to see the rainbow as it formed, just in time to catch Inuyasha, who had leapt through the open window, in her arms. She was just in time to start living again.