This is my first fiction and the last time I tried I failed miserably. Hopefully this will make up for it. I'm up for critisim. If you flame tell me what made it bad so I can improve. Enjoy.

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Prologue The jewel was as good as complete and Naraku had been defeated. They celebrated with sake and Kagome had the mother of all handovers the morning after. Now everything was as it should be, walking to hell knows were looking for shards. She knew that if they went to Kouga and his pack's den that they would find the last of the shards, but she would rather walk aimlessly for now. She wanted to spend her last moments with him.

Inuyasha

He had chosen Kikyou and she couldn't be more miserable. She respected the miko in a sense, but couldn't bring herself to hate her. She had every reason to, but she couldn't. She pitied her and held sympathy for her. The only love she ever held betrayed her and died because of it. Kikyou tried to kill her many times already.

She wanted to be angry to hate her.

It would dull the pain of it all. Being less in favor of a walking corpse. Being kept because she resembled that of another, but never being as good as her.

She still couldn't hate her.

Tried, but failed miserably every time. She even tried to be angry with Inuyasha, but it would all end in tears.

She decided not to cry anymore. She didn't want to hurt anymore. It hurt too much. She decided to stay in Sengoki Jidai after Inuyasha went to hell with Kikyou.

She wasn't planning on telling anyone of her intentions. She was going to say goodbye and make to go back to her own time and just wander off past Inuyasha's forest. She hoped Shippo would come with her. She needed someone to keep her sane, who better than her surrogate son?

They stopped for the night in a clearing in the woods. Miroku and Sango stayed in the Sango's village. They got their revenge and wanted to settle. Shippo promised to stay with Kagome. Once Inuyasha fulfilled his obligation to Kagome, off to hell we go!

She dreaded the completion of the jewel.

"Oi, Kagome?"

"Hhmm?"

"Kouga probably has the rest of the shards."

"Yeah, I know." She offered a weak smile.

"We'll head there in the morning."

Shippo lay sleeping in her lap. She began to absently pet his head and rub behind his ears. She stared off into space, a vacant expression on her face.

'After we hit Kouga's, we're all alone.'