I do not own InuYasha or the characters created by Rumiko Takahashi.

Author's Note: This is my first Fanfic story and I'm excited to share it with you. I found Inuyasha to be such a great story which I never wanted to end. The idea just came to me, and I haven't been able to stop writing in my free time. I'd appreciate any feedback you offer and hope you enjoy the stories.

The Lost Chapters: True feelings revealed

I don't know how it came to this…living two different lives, Kagome thought as she stood in front of the Bone Eater's well. She had everything packed in her yellow backpack which was quite heavy. She was about to climb into the well when she heard someone calling her name. "Kagome, Kagome?" Mrs. Higurashi called. Kagome sighed and called back to her, "Mama, I have to go. I told Inuyasha I'd be back early today." Mrs Higurashi appeared at the doors of the shrine slightly out of breath. "You forgot the extra potato chips for Inuyasha," her mother said. She descended the stairs and pushed the bags into Kagome's pack and zipped it back up. "Thanks mama, I'll be back in about a week," Kagome said as she hugged her mother goodbye. Kagome turned and jumped into the well and traveled to the feudal era.

When she climbed up the well on the other side, no one was there to greet her. She thought it was strange, but the sun was warm and birds were singing so she walked towards Kaede's village. The village was in her sight when she felt a demonic aura approaching her. She didn't sense any jewel shards, but it was coming right for her. She always left her bow and arrows with Kaede when she returned home, and there wasn't anything useful to fend off demons in her pack. She wasn't far from the village and knew Inuyasha would be there, so she began to run. Kagome was sure that Inuyasha would have either caught her scent by now or noticed the demon's youki*. Why couldn't he just meet her at the well or come get her like he normally does, she pondered.

Suddenly, a large snake-like demon shot onto the path from the forest to her right. Kagome jumped to avoid the attack and landed on her side in the dirt. She took a few seconds to take in the demon. Its deep indigo eyes pierced through her, and his thick caramel scaly skin had dark maroon hexagons in the center of each scale. The fangs appeared silver in the sunlight and positively lethal. The snake looked at her hungrily and slithered close to her. His mouth hung open and his acid like saliva burned holes in the ground. Kagome got up and started backing away slowly. She thought she might be able to make it back to the well and was confident the demon wouldn't time travel with her. If only I had my bow and quiver, she thought. The demon's eyes fixated upon her neck. The necklace with the jewel shards had fallen out of her shirt when she jumped out of the way: it shined bright and pure.

"Such a delectable power you have, once I devour you I shall have no problem gathering more jewel shards," the demon taunted her. "I'd purify you before you could digest me," Kagome answered back. She had stopped retreating and stood her ground with her arms folded across her chest. She had dealt with more powerful youkai* before, she reasoned with herself. At least she could waste time before Inuyasha arrived. "Kukuku*, but I would priestess. You are without a means to defend yourself and once I inject you with my venom you will lose all control of your powers," the snake snickered at her. That came as a bit of a surprise, she hadn't thought about the poison's affect. "Well, in that case, I should be going," she blurted out nervously. She pivoted on the spot and ran for the well, but the snake's tail was quicker. It reached out, grabbed her ankle and thrashed her body against the ground. She couldn't move, her body ached, and the wind was knocked out of her. The demon slithered around her and wrapped its body across her arms and legs. "I am Rydou, devourer of priests and priestesses, you shall become one with me," the demon declared. He began to squeeze her tighter and Kagome screamed from the pain. She felt like she might explode. Rydou moved in for the kill. His large triangular head came at her fast, silver fangs ready to puncture her skin. Kagome closed her eyes and braced herself for whatever would come next. She heard a clang and when she opened her eyes there was Inuyasha: sword out, battling the fangs. He used brute strength to push back the fangs. Quickly, he hacked the snake's tail off where it held Kagome captive. The snake's body fell away from her and he snatched her out of the air and carried her to the ground on the edge of the path. "Are you okay?" Inuyasha asked. She nodded, still a little shaken to speak. But she was happy to see him.

Once he confirmed that she was okay Inuyasha turned back to Rydou who had regenerated a new tail. "So what hole did you crawl out of? I suggest you get back to it unless you want to die," Inuyasha threatened, his voice irritated and his sword swung over his shoulder. "Do you take me for a fool, what's a half demon going to do? I can regenerate any body part you slice off," Rydou retorted. "Keh, in that case, I'll just have to get rid of you in one swing," Inuyasha stated. He pointed his sword at the demon and began his Wind Scar attack. Rydou had heard of this attack and knew that he couldn't thwart it without Kagome's power. The snake demon lunged towards Kagome before Inuyasha's attack was complete. "On no you don't," Inuyasha grabbed for Rydou's tail and swung him around to the other side of the path. Rydou grudgingly realized that he wouldn't be able to get near the girl. He shrunk in size to contain his aura and made his escape through the tall grass.

Inuyasha lacked the desire to chase after him and walked over to Kagome instead. She began to dust herself off and straighten her hair when the half demon approached her. "Geez, I can't leave you alone for one second without you getting into trouble. What took you so long to get back anyway?" Inuyasha accused her as he sheathed tetsusaiga. Her mouth gaped open for a moment as she looked at him in disbelief. She reflected that at first, he was all dashing and there to save her and then, turned into a jerk. "If you wanted me back sooner you should have come and got me. None of this would have happened if you did. And where were you? You weren't impatiently waiting at the well and it seemed like it took you forever to get here!" Kagome screamed back. She balled her hands into fists and started to redden. She couldn't believe him. "You're always telling me to stop following you and to back off and then when I do you get all upset!" Inuyasha shouted back. "I do not, but normally Shippou or someone is waiting to walk me to the village!" Kagome yelled. " Hmm, where is everyone?" she questioned trailing off a bit. She spaced out as she glanced around and noticed that they were alone.

"There was a rumor of a jewel shard to the West. I was going to go alone, but they went ahead and said I should wait for you. It's obvious you can't take care of yourself…Keh. Shippou went with Sango and Miroku, since he doesn't like to stay with me when you aren't around. I should have made Miroku stay. You shouldn't even go back to that place any way, all you do is complain about tests and not having enough time to study. So why bother?" Inuyasha finished, folding his arms across his chest. Kagome's knuckles started turning white and she tried hard to fight back the tears that were threatening to spill out of her eyes. "You idiot, if I had my bow I wouldn't need your help. If you didn't want me to come back you should've just said so. I suppose you can find the jewel shards without me then. Hmmmph," Kagome finished, turning an interesting shade of pink. Kagome noticed that he had avoided one of her questions instead of the usual mind your own business line. He also stared at the ground and kept his distance instead of in her face like their usual arguments. "Inuyasha, you weren't in the village were you?" Kagome asked. All expression left her face and there was no emotion in her voice. Inuyasha picked up on this and his ear flicked as he started to look nervous. Inuyasha glanced over at her but was avoiding her gaze. Kagome knew that he only looked at her like that when he was recently with Kikyo. Kagome's body relaxed all tension and he could no longer smell fresh tears. The guilt started to creep up on him, as the silence lengthened. Kagome gave the 'sit' command softly and stalked off to the village. Inuyasha thought it better to lie in the dirt instead of going after her.

*youki - demonic aura/energy
*kukuku - evil laughter
*youkai - demon