First Inuyasha story and in always up for constructive criticism. So without the long introduction please enjoy the story I have for you guys.

i don't own Inuyasha or any other the characters from the show

Kagome felt used. She felt unwanted and rejected by the one person she loved most. Inuyasha.

Inuyasha had been the cause of all her pain and sadness, yet she refused to pull away. She still saw that there was hope for them. That love- her love -could and would conquer all problems. Especially after all they had been through together, surely the dog demon saw more in her than just a friend, more than just someone to find the jewel shards, and certainly saw more than a look alike of his past lover. After tonight, however, she was not so sure of her place.

It had been shortly after a battle with a demon that Kagome trotted off after the white haired demon into the woods. Bow and arrow slung over her shoulder, she had hoped to have some personal alone time to just talk with him and finally relax, but fate was ever so cruel to the young girl. She had stumbled across the meeting of Inuyasha and Kikyo and listened in silent horror to their short conversation.

Kagome seemed frozen as she watched the two exchanged passionate and heated words and stolen touches. She regretfully heard the dog demon proclaim his loyalty and love to the woman who was supposed to be long dead and gone. Truthfully, Kagome should have been used to this by now. It was not the first time she had walked in on there "talks" and it wasn't the first time that she had heard her Inuyasha say how much he loved another...but it had always hurt as if it were the first time. Deep in her heart she knew he could not be swayed to love her as he had Kikyo, but the girl was in too far deep to listen to reason. She had held out for so long and hoped so much that he would love her as she loved him.

As punishment for her foolish dreaming she could not look away from the pair. Even as they touched each other with such longing Kagome's eyes dare not look away. I deserve this, she thought, I deserve to hurt so much for loving a man who is already taken. So as the priestess began to disappear into the forest background, Kagome wanted to make herself known.

"Inuyasha...," it came out as a harsh whisper from the girl's lips. She glared at the half demon before her as he slowly turned to face her, guilt taking over his features.

"Ka...Kagome? I'm-"

"Enough!" She yelled. "I don't want your apologies or excuses, Inuyasha. If you were truly sorry you would stop this. You would stop doing this to me," her voice began to shake and she cast her eyes toward the ground. Her heart felt heavy and her vision started to blur with tears. The half demon was quickly aware of her crying and made a move to try and comfort her but the girl stopped him from moving. As a reflex Kagome readied her bow and drew back an arrow, casting her aim at Inuyasha.

Startled by her hostile nature he drew back some and stared at her with shock. Never before had she pointed any weapon at his at her own free will, yet here he found himself at the worst end of Kagome's anger staring down the tip of her arrow. The young 21st century girl realized what she had done and slowly lowered her weapon. Her head was swarming with unwanted thoughts and voices in her head screaming at her for her stupidity. But finally she found her voice. "Just stay away from me, Inuyasha. Just stay away," and she hurriedly dashed off away from the half demon with tears in her eyes.

Inuyasha stood there, momentarily immobilized by her words and actions. He had never seen her so upset, and for her to act out in the manner she did, he had known he had screwed up yet again. Guilt had manifested in his heart as he realized what he had done. He cursed. He cursed Kagome for being here. He cursed Kikyo for confusing him. He cursed Naraku for starting all this. But mainly, he cursed himself for letting this happen. The half demon looked off into the direction Kagome went and briefly thought about chasing after her, but one thing he knew about Kagome is that she needed time to heal.

"Koga! Slow down! We can't keep up!" Ginta called to his leader as both he and Hakkaku ran after Koga.

"He always does this," Hakkaku commented breathlessly. "It's like he purposely forgets that, unlike him, we don't have jewel shards. Just as they finished complain, they saw their leader double back to them at full speed.

"Ginta. Hakkaku. Quit your whining and tell me what you smell." Both demons did as they commanded and sniffed the air curiously. They smelled the forest, water, and a faintly familiar scent was in the air, but before either could answer Koga had taken off again. "Follow the sent! I'll meet you boys there! See ya!"

"Koga-!" Ginta started but grew quiet as his leader disappeared in the distance. "I thought we were supposed to be chasing after Naraku not Koga," he stated with a sigh. Hakkaku shrugged as they went after their leader.

She was tired. She had been running pretty fast for a while now and was more than a little turned around. Kagome rested on a tree trying to catch her breath and placed her bow and arrows down next to her. She felt unbelievably childish for running away from her problems instead of talking, but at the time she didn't have a clue what to do. Her chest squeezed painfully as she recalled the reason why she ran away in the first place.

The reason she had run was because there was nothing to talk about anymore. Inuyasha had chosen Kikyo over her yet again without hesitation. What more could they say to each other about the subject? It was painful to stay by his side, but she promised that no matter how he felt she would be with him to the end.

"Why did I have to make a promise to that idiot...," she couldn't help but cry. The young priestess was so consumed by her thoughts that she didn't even sense that two jewel shards heading her way until they were practically two feet away from her.

"Yo! Kagome!" The youkai greeted loudly. "What are you doing out here? And by yourself no less."

Startled by the sudden company Kagome hurriedly started to wipe her eyes. "K-Koga! I didn't expect to run into you out here," she said with a nervous laugh. She kept her back turned toward him in an attempt to fix her appearance.

Almost immediately the Wolf demon sensed something was wrong. "Neither did I but I'm always up for a chance to be alone with my woman," he glanced around them. "Speaking of which, where's that mutt at? I don't smell his awful stench around here."

Kagome became defensive. "Who cares where he's at?! With any luck he's probably far away in the woods," she crossed her arms and huffed. For a moment her sadness was forgotten and replaced with mild irritation.

"So you have decided to leave him on your own free will?"

She paused for a moment, contemplating what the demon was asking her before nodding slowly. "Yeah. You could say that... But only until I can clear my head! I mean I still have Sango and Shippo to go back to at least," but the last part fell on deaf ears as the youkai only heard that she had left that good for nothing half demon. In an instant he was by her side and draped his arm around her shoulder causing her to let out a startled squeak.

"That's great! I'm glad that you finally decided to drop that filthy dog. Now there's nothing stopping you from being my woman completely," Kagome turned her head toward him ready to object but was suddenly drown out but Koga's voice. "So you were crying," he noted as he looked at her puffy red eyes. Kagome blinked before pulling out of his grip and turning her back to him again.

"It's nothing. I just hurt myself, again," she answered with a short bitter laugh.

"Kagome," he grabbed her shoulders and made her face him. "Don't lie to me, please. Did someone cause you to be upset?" He frowned. "Was it that mutt? I swear if he's done anything to hurt you I'll kill 'im."

"No, no! It's okay," she shook her head. "It's really nothing! I'm just getting worked up over something silly is all. Nothing for you to worry about, Koga," she gave him her best smile.

"The way you feel isn't nothing, Kagome," he continued to stare at her hoping to pry an straight forward answer out of her. "You know I would do anything for you, Kagome. If you ever need anything I would do it without hesitation."

Just then the young girl had an idea. Perhaps there was something this wolf demon could do after all. Taking a deep breath she summoned all her courage and looked Koga straight in the eye. "Actually Koga, there is one thing I would like you to help me with."

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So that that's! Right off the bat I would like to mention that I do not hate Inuyasha as a character but do get frustrated with his choices and actions, so if it seems that I am bashing him to boost up Koga I really don't mean to.

This story is still in the works and not completely done so I look forward to your feedback. I hope you've enjoyed the story so far because I got a lot of ideas to share with y'all.