I do not own Inuyasha.

There's so many stories to be written, but I can't write. This is an old story I dug up from my computer. It doesn't have any real lead. I shouldn't even published this one, but oh well, I'm bored. Review please.

"I love you, Inuyasha," she smiled sadly at her friend who held his opened door facing her.

"W-what?" Inuyasha's jaw dropped. To say that he was shock was an understatement. He never saw this coming.

"I've always been in love with you." Kikyo explained sadly.

"Why, why are you telling me this now?" he wanted to know. They had been friends since childhood. Why did she never tell him before? Why now when it was so close to her wedding? She was to be married tomorrow.

"Maybe I just want to be selfish for once. I just want to let you know how I truly feel. Because I will never see you again." Kikyo would move to the capital city; to where her future husband, the king, lived.

Suddenly Inuyasha felt like he couldn't breathe. His lungs felt like they had been crushed and his heart felt like it had been stabbed. The thought that he would never see her again was unbearable. At that moment he knew she was not just a childhood friend to him. He too had been in love with her. He just never realized until she broke the forbidden spell.

She was a priestess while he was a half-demon. They should not even be friends.

"Then don't get marry." He pulled her into his arms.

"You know I can't do that, Inuyasha." She returned his embrace, her head rested onto his solid chest. "I have to marry King Naraku. It's the only way we can pay the debt." Inuyasha held her tighter. "Kaede is only eight, Inuyasha. I cannot let my family suffer knowing I can help."

"But I won't accept it!" he held her so tight as if his life depended on it.

He did not stop her before thinking she wanted to be married. However, now was a different story. Now that he knew they were in love, he would not let her go. She may be selfless, but he was not.

"We have to accept it." Kikyo sigh into his chest. "My father will die if I don't marry him."

"I won't let you. Wait for me. No matter how many years it takes, I will come for you." He will come up with a plan to free her. She could not just run away, she would not put her family's life in danger.

"Thank you." she told him sadly. She was both happy and sad. She was happy her feelings was return. That he would come for her. But she was sad that Inuyasha now carried a burden he should not have.

But for the moment, she would relished all the happiness she could. Before she would part forever and never see him again.