I thought of this while reading some other Inu-Yasha fanfic's, brilliantly written ones.

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Kagome sat, silently, on a rock next to the glimmering pool of water. The small stream had formed this pool after first falling over a ledge of granite, harder then the surrounding stone, eating away into the earth until a deep pool formed below it. However, a later upheaval of the earth had tilted that land upwards, causing the earth around the pool to push up, making it level with the top of the waterfall.

Kagome didn't care. She sat on a large boulder, donned in her bathing suit, brushing her wet, shimmering black locks slowly and dreamily in the bright sunlight. She knew, secretly, that this was her time. Inu-Yasha was about a hundred yards back in the woods, not watching, but making sure she was safe, Shippo was off trying to become more powerful with his kitsune magic, and Miroku and Sango were undoubtedly puttering around camp, showing their love for each other by groping, and getting slapped for gropping.

She smiled. Life was good right now. She had a lot of shards; she had her friends…

She hummed happily. Naraku was off somewhere, being a pain in the ass to someone else, Kikyo hadn't been seen for days…

Kagome lay on her back and closed her eyes, letting the sun warm her somewhat chilled body.

Kikyo…

What was it about her? That she was supposed to be the same person as Kagome? That she was insufferably cool and calm and just a flaming bitch about her coolness?

That's not entirely fair…

She wasn't a FLAMING bitch, but there was just SOMETHING that got Kagome's hair to stand up around her. She knew…deep inside she knew, and she'd come to grips with, the fact that she was a part of a whole. She wasn't an entire human being, and that her other half had a bow, a lot of arrows, and her and Inu-Yasha's name on almost every one.

Does she love Inu-Yasha? Do I?

She smiled, her eyes still closed, sensing that Inu-Yasha had moved through the trees, closer, to make sure that she was all right. If she wasn't splashing about, and she didn't come immediately back towards the rather permanent camp, he got worried.

I love him

Her smile broadened, and with a mouthed word of 'Sit, please', she heard Inu-Yasha go crashing to the ground.

BITCH!!!

She almost laughed. He was so cute, and sweet, and so wonderful, if only he would look at her, and smile, and laugh.

But he never smiles, or laughs, or jokes with me. He treats me, he treats all of us, like we're just annoying distractions…

She frowned and opened her eyes, dazzingly herself on the sunlight.

Well, that's going to change tonight!

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Yheah, this is probably going to go where you think it's going to go. But dammit, it'll have a plot this time, I promise.

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