InuYasha held Kagome close and whispered, "I never want to let you go."
Kagome moved closer to InuYasha and laid her head on his chest. She tried holding her tears back. She wrapped her arms around InuYasha and linked her hands together against his back. "I never want to go."
InuYasha rested his cheek against the top of Kagome's head. "Kagome, if you don't want to go, then stay here."
Kagome moved closer. "I – I can't. I'm sorry."
"Please, stay."
"I told you, InuYasha, I can't."
"Then don't forget me," InuYasha said.
"I never will," Kagome said.
Kagome moved away from InuYasha. She looked into his golden eyes. Don't cry, She silently told herself. Before I leave, I want one kiss from InuYasha. But I don't know if he feels that way, also.
"Kagome…"
"Yes?" Kagome said.
"I…"
I'm not going to wait for him to say it, Kagome thought.
Kagome pressed her lips against InuYasha's and kissed him. Though it would've made her happy any other day, it made her cry. She didn't want to leave InuYasha, but she knew she had to.
InuYasha moved his hands up to Kagome's face and wiped her tears away.
Stop crying, Kagome, Kagome silently told herself, moving off InuYasha.
"Kagome, please don't go," InuYasha tried begging again.
"I have to go home, I already told you that. I'm sorry, InuYasha."
InuYasha stayed silent as Kagome pulled the rosary off. "InuYasha, I can trust you with the jewel, right? You'll become a human, not a demon, right?"
InuYasha nodded. "Yes, I'll become a human."
Kagome smiled through the tears as she put the jewel into InuYasha's hands. "I'm really sorry I have to do this," Kagome said.
"Can I at least come with you?" InuYasha asked.
"No. I have to go alone."
"Kagome…"
Kagome gave InuYasha a last quick hug. Then, she jumped down the well.
Kagome pulled herself up the walls of stone in the well, and then pulled herself over it. She sat over the edge and looked in. The well began to grow dull and plants began to grow inside of it.
Kagome jumped inside and looked up. She was still in her own time. She knew that since the jewel was gone, there was now way to go back to the feudal era. It was all over.
Kagome climbed her way up the well using the plants. This time, when she got over the edge, she actually went to the doors of the shrine. She looked back at the well a last time and sighed. There was nothing she could do now.
As Kagome walked out of the shrine, her mind was full. She was thinking of how easy her life would be and how much she would miss InuYasha. She didn't watch her step and she fell. Blackness surrounded Kagome and she passed out.