Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha *whimper*
Author's Notes: The plot's mine!
I Love You
By Midnight Star24
She had left him. After all they've been through, she had left him. He couldn't b-. No wouldn't believe that she would be so cruel to do that to him.
"She left and it's all your fault!" screamed Shippou, restrained for tearing him apart with his rage by Miroko who was shaking with controlled but silent fury. "You bastard! Kagome was nice to me! Now you made her leave."
Inuyasha trembled, shock and pain plain on my face as he face Kaede, Sango, Miroko and Shippou's weeping, accusing eyes with hurt and sadness in his own.
"What did you do to her Inuyasha?" asked Kaede softly.
He looked at her in bewilderment. Kaede explained softly.
"While you were out hunting, Kagome suddenly stood up and told us all that she would be leaving back to her era and never coming back. Forever."
Pain ripped through his heart. How could she do this to him? After everything Inuyasha has been through with her, she decides to leave him. He lov-. Love? An emotion Inuyasha was not accustomed to since 50 years ago when Kikyou was still alive. But the love for Kikyou faded with time as the time he spent with Kagome increased his feelings for her. And she left him before he could tell her.
"She told me to give you these," said Sango quietly as she handed Inuyasha a small, carefully wrapped package.
Inuyasha knew what it was even before the package came into contact with his hand. The Shikon Shards. Purified by her caring, gentle hands. He wanted to howl his sorrow and pain but kept the cry back along with the tears Inuyasha desperately wanted to shed. This was no nightmare. It was reality.
He raised half-crazed eyes to stare at Shippou. "About how long ago did she leave?"
"Five minutes before YOU came back!! You better pray that you find her or I tear you into shreds, no matter what my size lacks!!" cried Shippou as he continued that fight for freedom in Miroko's grasp.
Five minutes. She could have done anything in five minutes, gone anywhere. I was a ten minute run from here to the enchanted well. That meant that he only had five more minutes before she disappeared from his world forever.
Inuyasha ran as he'd never ran before, racing across the land, the thought of Kagome leaving the only thing spurring him on.
Her scent got stronger and fresher with each step he took. Please be there, my heart begged.
Finally, what seemed like eternity to Inuyasha, he came to the well. His frantic amber eyes searched the land in a desperate attempt to reach for is love. Was he too late? Her scent ended here.
"Well well, look who finally decided to join us?"
His heart froze. Inuyasha turned quickly to find Sesshoumaru staring at him.
"Where is she?" Inuyasha snarled, in no mood for deceit.
"Now is that the way you talk to your elder brother?" he said, a smug smile plaster to his face as if he had a very precious secret only he knew about.
"Where is she?!" he repeated, almost dying from the pain that she had died in his half-brother's hands. Blood-stained, murderous hands.
"You mean your wench?" he asked. An instantly later, Kagome appeared in his arms, unconscious.
Rage grew in him as a claw of Sesshoumaru's extended to wrap itself around Kagome's throat.
"Let her go!"
"How about a trade? The bitch for the Tetsusaiga?"
Kagome, for the Tetsusaiga. His love, for the hard-earned sword. Inuyasha's hand tightened on the hilt of the Tetsusaiga. Never! He'll never give up either of them.
Sesshoumaru's claw had strayed closer and closer to the big pulse in Kagome's throat. "Decide now!"
"Neither" Inuyasha snarled painfully, wondering what his crazed brother would do if he said that.
Sesshoumaru sighed as if hoping for that answer. "Very well."
He tore a wide gash in Kagome's throat before Inuyasha had a chance to react.
Inuyasha screamed in agony as he saw Sesshoumaru carelessly toss her aside . Rage and agony gave him unnatural strength as he rushed towards Sesshoumaru and ripped out his brother's remaining arm.
Sesshoumaru stumbled back, shock on his face as he vanished.
Rushing towards Kagome, his heart praying that she would still be alive after that deadly attack, he pressed a finger to her wrist.
Her pulse flew rapidly under Inuyasha's finger. As best as he could, he ripped a piece of his robe off and tied it to Kagome's throat.
Lifting her in his arms, he rushed back to where he last saw Kaede and the others, praying that they would still be there. Kaede was his last hope.
~*To be continued*~
Author's Notes: How did you like my first shot at an Inuyasha fanfic. I'd like to add some more chapters but I'll hear what you readers have on improving this little fic. Please review!!