Hey guys! Long time no see! I wrote a few Degrassi stories, and I went through a VERY hard time and stopped writing. I went through a domestic violence situation,lost my father, and had a baby. Life is great now though, and I'm no longer going through hard times. I'm ready to write again! I'm rusty so please review and give me ideas! This is my favorite anime/show I plan this to be a long story :)

KAGOME'S POV

Five years have passed, and the nights get longer as each year passes. Each year that I am without him, each year that I am forced to pretend that I am happy. As I lay in deep thought I glanced at my alarm clock which read 2:30, and next to me Hojo who peacefully slept. He was so perfect, so absolutely generous and caring, all he desired was my happiness. Yet, I was dying inside. When he touched me and when he kissed me, my body ached and I physically felt pain, pain so bad i could barley stand it. I loved Hojo, he had been so good to me and protected me the best he could but he wasn't him and I didn't love him the way he deserved. He wasn't Inuyasha. At night I prayed that I'd open my eyes and I'd be under the stars, and inuyasha instead would be beside me. It wasn't to be though, no matter what I did I could not pass through the well. Today would mark a year since I even attempted to pass through. A year that felt like a million lifetimes of suffering. In both of my lifetimes, my life as Kikyo and as Kagome, I somehow found my way to him. I died and was reborn only to be with him again in the next life, yet fait would rip us apart yet again. What was the point of it all, I would never understand! As the pain in my heart became too much to bare something inside of me changed, I was sensing something. I wasn't quite sure what it was but there was no mistaking It, I felt my spiritual power coursing through my body, something I hadn't been able to feel in the four years that I had been forced away from the feudal era. I quietly flew out of bed, throwing a robe over my night gown as I headed out of the door, before I shut it I held onto the doorknob tightly wondering if I shouldn't just crawl back into bed. Hojo would wonder where I am if he awoke, and besides what would be different this time. Was I walking in to disappointment? I shook those thoughts out of my head, closing the door. I walked down our apartment stares barefoot, and I ran. I ran like my life depended on it, my only thought was the well. I needed to reach my family's shrine, i needed to try one more time. Just one more. It was like I could feel inuyasha so close to me that if I didn't know better I would have thought he was really here. Finally I reached home and running up the stairs out of breath and tired i finally reached it, the sacred well. I froze in front of it. A year had passed and I hadn't even bothered to return here, it was too hard and the disappointment I would feel every time I tried to pass through was too much for me. This time though, this time I could almost smell the forest, I could hear the wind blowing. I gripped the well tightly and I jumped, falling into a pillar of light. I was on my way back.

INUYASHA'S POV

Sango, Miroku, Kaede and myself sat around a fire in a hut in the village we all called home. They went on discussing the fires, the raped women, the chaos that has been going on for the last month. "Inuyasha, ye heard the rumors, have ye not?" Kaede stared at me with a sour look, I knew she was worried that if the rumors were true she wouldn't be able to survive, not this time, she was older now and her heart couldn't take another war.

"Yeah. It's nothing but rumors, all lies I tell ya! Kagome-" I paused catching my breath from the sting her name left in my heart. I collected myself and continued, I had to be strong for my friends. "She destroyed the jewel. We all know the story, she was brought to this world to destroy the jewel and ripped from it the moment she did. Case closed. A few demon attacks, and someone human violence are nothing new." I sat with my arms crossed and eyes closed silently praying, if Narraku was back If the jewel truly wasn't destroyed I don't know that I could destroy them again, not without her.

"Inuyasha" Miroku chimed in, causing me to open my eyes. "The demons and humans alike can all sense it, they are killing each other, going mad. This world, the times we live in are plagued with evil magic. Is it so hard to believe that the jewel has been brought back, that Naraku himself is back? Or that they were never destroyed in the first place? I sense his presence lately, don't tell me you don't."

I sat quiet, he was right. I could smell Naraku everywhere I went, his smell filled my nostrils yet he was nowhere to be found and neither was the jewel. "Kaede, what are your thoughts?" I whispered.

She sighed heavily, "Inuyasha I believe it to be true, yet I know not how. Something in the air has changed and I've heard rumors of people sighting him, and if he is still alive then the jewel of four souls could very well still be among us. Kagome, she wished to destroy the jewel, but if her heart was filled with doubt or fear maybe the wish she spoke was not what she truly wished for." Kaede hesitated, concern on her wrinkled face. Concern for me. "Inuyasha for all we truly know, kagome could be inside of the jewel and not on the other side of the well as we thought. She could be fighting inside of it as we speak, or it could have killed her. We may never truly know what her fait was, and ye can not put passed Naraku anything. We are in dangerous times again, and we all need to be weary." She looked away from me to Sango, who had tears down her cheeks.

"You're wrong, you're all wrong. This can't be we did what had to be done years ago and kagome is home with her family, living well. Inuyasha saw for himself with his own eyes!" I remembered seeing kagome for the last time, in the arms of her family, was it all an illusion? "I feel it, she did her job so that we-" Sango looked to her children sleeping on the floor and winced in pain. I felt for her, if this was all true we'd all have to fight again. Without kagome I had nothing to lose, I would gladly die, but Sango and Miroku had children now. It would be different this time, higher stakes for them.

I grabbed her hand and I gave her a reassuring look. "Sango no matter what the case we'll all be okay." She smiled at me, silently thanking me. I let go of her hand and stood up without a word walking out of the hut, all of this talk about kagome, it was too much for me. Her name hadn't been spoken in years in front of me, I couldn't bare the thought of her let alone the thought of her being inside of the jewel, fighting alone and scared without me there to protect her.

As I walked around the village, imagining her warm in her bed and looking up at the stars I wondered if she was happy, or if she was suffering in silence the way that I was. I made my way into the forest planning to sleep there for the night, but I was stopped in my tracks. That smell. Was it? Kagome?